Last night, MTV's Kurt Loder sat down with "The Lord of the Rings" composer Howard Shore and Pippin the Hobbit actor Billy Boyd at The Paley Center for Media. Kurt was there to moderate a panel called Shore on the Score: The Music of "The Lord of the Rings," which featured Shore, Boyd and The Music of the Lord of the Rings Films author Doug Adams.
The event kicked off a week long "Lord of the Rings" celebration which will culminate with live performances of the "Fellowship of the Ring" score at Radio City Music Hall on October 9 and 10.
At the panel, Shore confirmed that he'll be working with Peter Jackson again soon on the score for the Guillermo del Toro-directed adaptation of The Hobbit." Much like what he did for "Lord of the Rings," Shore will compose his music before he ever sees a frame of the film.
"I dream and read, and read and dream about it and that's how you compose. You know composing is sort of an intuitive act," Shore said. "You have to put yourself in the right frame of mind. You want to enter into Middle-earth in a certain way and then you start creating."
Since "The Hobbit" is essentially a prequel to the "Rings" trilogy, there's also the question of how the music of the older films might relate to this one. "Well, the idea with the three films that we made we wanted to have a seamless quality to it, and the three films were made at once. The two 'Hobbit' films are also being shot together. The world is a seamless world, you want feel like 'The Hobbit' takes you earlier, it's an earlier story," he explained. "Certain things will have to be referenced really, possibly in a more simple way, a less complicated way. So that you feel that 'The Hobbit' is a part of this [larger] story."
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