"I smote his ruin upon the mountainside"

Mark your calendars, fans of Tolkien and of great film music: November 7 will see the release of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Complete Recordings). The Fellowship release in the Complete Recordings series of these film scores sets the gold standard for major film music releases, and Two Towers will be more of the same. Howard Shore's soundworld for these films continues to astonish me.