Rhino is taking another journey to Middle-earth this Friday, July 27, with the reissue of the second soundtrack from director Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy.  The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – The Complete Recordings, composed and conducted by Academy Award winner Howard Shore, follows the reissue earlier this year of the Fellowship of the Ring soundtrack.  Like that set it will be available in two deluxe physical formats: a 5-LP vinyl box set and a 3-CD/1-Blu-ray Audio box.

The 5-LP edition marks the Grammy-winning, gold-certified soundtrack’s premiere on vinyl.  The box set is limited to 8,000 individually numbered copies on blue vinyl.  The 3-CD/1-BD iteration boasts the complete soundtrack on CD as well as in high-resolution 5.1 and 2.0 stereo on the Blu-ray disc.  (The Blu-ray replaces the DVD of the original set.)  Both versions present copious liner notes from historian Doug Adams.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers features the combined efforts of The London Philharmonic Orchestra and two choirs: The London Voices and The London Oratory School Schola boys’ choir.  Shore’s dramatic and distinctive score evokes the grand and sweeping nature of the films themselves.  This reissue is the second in Rhino’s series of three releases that will conclude at a later date with the vinyl premiere and CD/BD reissue of 2003’s The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

Look for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers on July 27.  Pre-order links are available below!

The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers – The Complete Recordings (originally released as Reprise/New Line Records 44376-2, 2006 – reissued Reprise/Rhino, 2018; original film released 2002)

3CD/1BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
5LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

Disc 1

1. Glamdring
2. Elven Rope
3. Lost in Emyn Muil
4. My Precious
5. Uglúk’s Warriors
6. The Three Hunters
7. The Banishment of Éomer
8. Night Camp
9. The Plains of Rohan
10. Fangorn
11. The Dead Marshes
12. “Wraiths On Wings”
13. Gandalf The White
14. The Dreams of Trees
15. The Heir of Númenor
16. Ent-draught

Disc 2

1. Edoras
2. The Court of Meduseld
3. Théoden King (Featuring “The Funeral of Théodred” Performed by Miranda Otto)
4. The King’s Decision
5. Exodus From Edoras
6. The Forests of Ithilien
7. One of the Dúnedain (Featuring “Evenstar” Performed by Isabel Bayrakdarian)
8. The Wolves of Isengard
9. Refuge at Helm’s Deep
10. The Voice of Saruman
11. Arwen’s Fate (Featuring “The Grace of the Valar” Performed by Sheila Chandra)
12. The Story Foretold
13. Sons of the Steward
14. Rock and Pool
15. Faramir’s Good Council

Disc 3

1. Aragorn’s Return
2. War Is Upon Us
3. “Where Is the Horse and the Rider?”
4. The Host of the Eldar
5. The Battle of the Hornburg
6. The Breach of the Deeping Wall
7. The Entmoot Decides
8. Retreat (Featuring “Haldir’s Lament” Performed by Elizabeth Fraser)
9. Master Peregrin’s Plan
10. The Last March of the Ents (Featuring Ben Del Maestro)
11. The Nazgûl Attack
12. Théoden Rides Forth (Featuring Ben Del Maestro)
13. The Tales That Really Matter
14. “Long Ways to Go Yet” (Featuring “Gollum’s Song” Performed by Emiliana Torrini)

Blu-ray Audio (featuring all contents of CDs)

Portions previously released on Reprise Records 48419-2, 2002