One Ring to Rule Them All

THE HISTORY OF THE RING THEME, a theme for The One Ring, is used “whenever the One Ring changes hands or marks significant progress in its journey“. (Doug Adams, CR-FOTR liner notes, page 7) The music is light, almost lyrical, throughout FOTR and TTT. But in ROTK, the History of the Ring combines with the Evil of the Ring (Mordor/Sauron). The minor key and reedy rhaita of Sauron’s theme give a more menacing tone to the History of the Ring. MORDER/SAURON aka THE EVIL OF THE RING THEME, has two names and is