LOTR Movies (Various Material)

Howard Shore - Creating The Lord of the Rings Symphony: A Composer's Journey Through Middle-earth, includes excerpts of live concert footage from The Lord of the Rings Symphony: Six Movements for Orchestra, Chorus and Soloists, commentary by Howard Shore, and the illustrations of Alan Lee and John Howe. The concert footage was recorded live at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, Place des Arts, Montreal, Canada in February 2004.

A 2003 Behind the Scenes Portrait of Howard Shore,working on LOTR - The Return of the King soundtrack. Ft. Annie Lennox and Renée Fleming.

A 2024 Arte Documentary, written and directed by Jean-Christoph Caron and Matthias Schmidt. Audio in German with English, Italian, Spanish, German and French (for the non French speaking parts) subtitles (click on CC for subtitles). J.R.R Tolkien’s fantasy novels hold a unique place in twentieth century English literature and are much loved by readers the world over. This documentary explores the real places in England and elsewhere that provided inspiration for Tolkien to create the world of Middle Earth in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

One franchise to rule them all. Catherine Bray explores how director Peter Jackson used both classic and cutting-edge techniques to craft his big-screen adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's epic fantasy trilogy. Made in the 20th century, and released in the 21st, The Lord of The Rings simultaneously bade farewell to modes of filmmaking that had existed for a century, while heralding the rise of new methods of storytelling that would inform the cinema of the next hundred years.

A second concert dedicated to Canadian film composer Howard Shore, famous for his scores to Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings and David Cronenberg’s The Fly. With the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, conducted by Ludwig Wicki. Featured Performers: Miloš, guitar • Karol Mossakowski, organ • Stéphane Guillaume, alto saxophone • Olivier Doise • Maîtrise de Radio France (Morgan Jourdain, choral conductor) • Chœur de Radio France (Lionel Sow, choral conductor). Chapters: 0:50 - Fanfare for Organ and Brass 7:17 - The Fly 19:36 - Naked Lunch 30:44 - The Forest, Concerto for guitar and orchestra 57:00 - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 01:48:35 - The Noble Wood (I Roderyn) Music from The Hobbit Maison de la Radio – Auditorium, Paris, France May 12, 2023

Source: Middle Earth Ultimate Collector's Edition DISC 31 – Special Features Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema's Bob Shaye decided to take a unique approach in introducing footage from "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" to the world by unveiling a lengthy showreel (26 minutes) during the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.

Stephen Colbert with Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Billy Boyd and Dominic Monaghan. On Bitchute with Italian subtitles: https://www.bitchute.com/video/1L038qRYI7u5/ Source: Middle Earth Ultimate Collector's Edition DISC 31 – Special Features

Stephen Colbert with Cate Blanchett, Viggo Mortensen, Liv Tyler and Orlando Bloom. On Bitchute with Italian subtitles: https://www.bitchute.com/video/tZjJQLqwVGFZ/ Source: Middle Earth Ultimate Collector's Edition DISC 31 – Special Features

Stephen Colbert with Peter Jackson, Ian McKellen and Andy Serkis. On Bitchute with Italian subtitles: https://www.bitchute.com/video/P2wDlEM2HP9c/ Source: Middle Earth Ultimate Collector's Edition DISC 31 – Special Features

Reclaiming the Blade is a 2009 documentary on the culture and craft of swords and their role in entertainment. Written and directed by Daniel McNicoll, produced by Galatia Films, narrated by British actor John Rhys-Davies. The documentary was produced with the support of Peter Jackson, Weta Workshop, Skywalker Sound and the Royal Armouries. Notable interviewees from the film industry include Viggo Mortensen, Karl Urban, Richard Taylor, and Hollywood sword master Bob Anderson (fencing instructor in LOTR Trilogy, to Errol Flynn and Johnny Depp among others). Interviewed as an expert on swordmaking is bladesmith Paul Champagne. Seven Western Martial Arts - WMA - groups located in five countries in Europe provide footage for Reclaiming the Blade: Arts of Mars (Germany), Boar’s Tooth Fight School (UK), de Taille et d’Estoc (France), Ringschule Wrocław, ARMA-PL (Poland), Schola Gladiatoria (UK), Stockholm’s Historical Fencing Society (Sweden), The School of Traditional Medieval Fencing (UK).