The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power will be released on Amazon Prime in a few weeks. After the fantasy return remained tight-lipped about details regarding Season 2, which went beyond Sauron’s rise with the eponymous rings, the soundtrack’s track list now clarifies some new details. Read on at your own risk. Also be warned about the heavy metal screams of singing trolls.
Lord of the Rings soundtrack spoils season 2 of The Rings of Power with music
As in season 1, film and series composer Bear McCreary (The Walking Dead) is once again creating the music for the second season of the Lord of the Rings series. Amazon recently announced the soundtrack list of the new instrumental pieces and songs. Some of the titles of the upcoming songs already anticipate events and characters from Middle Earth that had previously only been speculated about in rumors. Here you can find the Tracklist including noteswhat the individual songs reveal. Among the 25 pieces there are currently nine songs with vocals:
– is the legendary wasteland in the east of Middle Earth, where Nori and the stranger travel for their star constellation
– the “golden leaves of Lindon” fell in season 1, now there is apparently a new development regarding tree death and elf fading
– apparently Durin’s dwarf wife Disa is getting more stone singers to help her uncover the mountain’s secrets
– is the elven city where Celebrimbor built his forge in Season 1
– Giant spider Shelob is really back, albeit a little smaller, as the trailer shows
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– the eagles are back, as the trailer on Númenor showed … and will probably soon reignite the discussions about their role in Middle Earth
– while Tom Bombadil has already been revealed, this track probably refers to his wife Goldberry, who is also called “Daughter of the River” by Tolkien
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– Candles on the water: ceremony or burial at sea?
– Adar continues to breed his Orc army in Mordor
– the hill troll gets a heavy metal song, more on that below
– Tom Bombadil is apparently important enough to be allowed to sing his song twice
– despite the promised dark second season, there is a ray of hope at the end of the soundtrack: that the sun is still shining
The first Lord of the Rings song released in Season 2 is the heavy metal song of a bloodthirsty troll
After a picture of the hill troll Damrod introduced the new character as a homage to a Breaking Bad character, the monster now gets his own song. Jens Kidman, singer of the Swedish Extreme Metal-Band Meshugga sang – or screamed – the Song The Last Ballad of Damrod which has now been released as the first track in advance. You can listen to it here:
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According to Tolkien’s translation, the name Damrod means “Metal Hammer”which fits the type of heavy metal music style chosen. Damrod will probably rage in the Battle of Eregion on the side of Adar and his orcs. In the lyrics, the troll sings about his lonely existence, breaking (dragon) bones and his general bloodlust when the battle horn calls him into battle.
It is unclear whether the song will be heard within the episode’s plot, i.e. whether it will be performed by the troll Damrod himself, or whether it will simply accompany the end credits of an episode. As threatening as the new Lord of the Rings song sounds, the fact that it is the troll’s “last” ballad suggests that the overpowering enemy will be brought down at the end of the second season of The Rings of Power.
When will season 2 of the Lord of the Rings series be released and when will the soundtrack be released?
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power starts on Thursday, 29 August 2024 with episode 1 of season 2 on Amazon Prime *. Everything else you need to know about the new episodes can be found in the overview of season 2.
The soundtrack for the second season will be released one week before the series starts: on Friday, 23 August 2024.
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