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Overview of Themes for Gondor |
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In
The Music of the LOTR
Films, Doug Adams
identifies five themes associated with Gondor.
REALM
OF GONDOR -
This theme has two settings:
~ Gondor in Decline - as heard
in the FOTR when Boromir speaks of his father during the
Council of Elrond ~
Gondor in Ascension - DA
says this about Gondor in Ascension: "though the
Ascension theme is not fully heard until the third film,
MINAS
TIRITH
- This theme represents "everything that mankind can be,
should it choose the nobler path". (Doug Adams,
CR-FOTR liner notes, page 20-21)
FARAMIR AND DENETHOR
- This theme is related to the Ascension Setting of the
Gondor Theme.
THE
FOURTH AGE OF MIDDLE-EARTH
GONDOR REBORN
- This theme is built off the
Minas Tirith Theme,
This theme represents "Gondor's
rightful place in Middle-earth is restored. Gondor has a new,
just king; evil is vanquished; and Middle-earth begins its new
era of peace." (Doug Adams, CR-ROTK liner notes, page 19)
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