Nature's Reclamation
NATURE'S RECLAMATION, a theme for
Nature, is music that spans events in the movies.
Quiet as a moth, determined as angry Ents, it "represents Nature's resistance of encroaching evil" (
Doug Adams, CR--FOTR liner notes, page 32).
The official title in the liner notes is 'Nature's
Reclamation' but I will continue to use just 'Nature
Theme'. Doug Adams maintains that, in
Tolkien's world, Nature is a culture alongside of the
Elves,
Dwarves or
Men.
The music of the Ents is informed as much by the instruments used as by any melody. Shore used a collection of wood instruments, bassoon and low basses that play meandering melodies that evoke mass and mystery. The music moves with a slow but deliberate cadence.
The list below is for the bassoon music, but various wood percussion instruments were
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