Lindsay Ellis' Essay Collection (TV Series)

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Autopsy (1/2) (2018)

Lindsay Ellis: Self

Quotes 

• Lindsay Ellis : But there's one element in particular. A small one, but to me it encapsulates the clumsily, slapped-together new ending to movie one. It's not the Bilbo bum-rush, but this right here.

  [cue scene with Thorin charging Azog as music plays] 

  Lindsay Ellis : Did you catch it? Here, I'll play it again.

  [the same scene again] 

  Lindsay Ellis : That's...

  [sighs] 

  Lindsay Ellis : ... that's the Ringwraith theme!

  [Nazgul theme plays] 

  Lindsay Ellis : Like, you know, things mean things! Musical motifs especially mean things! That wasn't Sauron's theme, it wasn't Gollum's theme, that was, specifically, the Ringwraith theme from Fellowship. I know you know this, Howard Shore, Peter Jackson, Philippa Boyens, all of whom put so much thought and effort into the Lord of the Rings. You explained it to me back in 2001!

  Howard Shore : [from interview]  "Revelation of the RIngwraiths" is a poem that Philippa Boyens wrote. In the case of this, it was translated into Adunaic, which was the ancient speech of Men.

  Lindsay Ellis : And here you are, just slapping on whatever ominous-sounding music, because you have decided it should be three films in October and it's being released in December and Howard Shore didn't have time to compose something new.