Summary
| Description | Howard Shore's central theme in his Music of The Lord of the Rings film series, "The History of the Ring", first heard in the prologue of the first film, The Fellowship of the Ring |
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| Author or copyright owner |
Howard Shore |
| Source (WP:NFCC#4) | The Music of the Lord of the Rings Films (book) |
| Date of publication | 2000 |
| Use in article (WP:NFCC#7) | Music of The Lord of the Rings film series |
| Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8) | To illustrate Howard Shore's compositional approach, and Doug Adams's in documenting that approach. This theme is stated to be the "central theme" of the music, repeated at every major event in the progress of the One Ring, the central object of the story. |
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| Not replaceable with textual coverage because (WP:NFCC#1) |
Music cannot be fully represented in a text description; nor can the graphic presentation of a book. |
| Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3) | This is the only sample of sheet music with orchestration for multiple instruments in the article, indeed the only example of such a thing from Shore's music for The Lord of the Rings anywhere on Wikipedia. |
| Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2) |
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| Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Music of The Lord of the Rings film series//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_History_of_the_Ring_Theme.jpgtrue | |
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