The Lord of the Rings
Book Playlist · Winter Stillness

The Lord of the Rings Playlist

by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

20 tracks
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Nov 11, 2026

Winter Stillness pairs quiet piano, spacious strings and crystalline ambient textures with the journey from the Shire’s fragile peace to the cold peril of Mordor. A small selection of the original film score evokes Middle-earth itself, while the changing musical scale follows the Fellowship’s courage, fracture, endurance and return to hope.

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Track List

20 songs
1

The Prophecy

Howard Shore · The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)

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The Great River

Howard Shore · The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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The Shire

Howard Shore · The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - the Complete Recordings

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River Flows In You

The Piano Guys · Lullaby

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Watermark

Enya · Themes From "Calmi Cuori Appassionati"

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The Rain Must Fall

Yanni · Reflections Of Passion

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24 Préludes, Op. 28: No. 4 in E Minor

Frédéric Chopin · Chopin: Evening Around 1831 Pleyel

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Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 2 "Moonlight": I. Adagio sostenuto

Ludwig van Beethoven · Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 3

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The Last of the Mohicans

Trevor Jones · My Wonderland

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10

A Thousand Years

The Piano Guys · The Piano Guys

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Concerning Hobbits (From "The Lord of the Rings")

Howard Shore · Fantasymphony

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The Riders of Rohan

Howard Shore · The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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13

La petite fille de la mer - Remastered

Vangelis · La petite fille de la mer

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14

Matsuri

Kitaro · Kojiki

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Eden

Hania Rani · Esja

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Nights in the Gardens of Spain: 1. En el generalife

Manuel de Falla · De Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain; El amor brujo; Chabrier: España; Ravel: Boléro

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17

Carmen Suite No. 1: Intermezzo

Georges Bizet · Bizet: Carmen Suites/L'Arlesienne Suites/Jeux d'enfants

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18

stella

KASHIWA Daisuke · program music I

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Litany, in Memory of Michael Vyner: I. Adagio

Toru Takemitsu · Takemitsu: Complete Works for Solo Piano

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The Light She Brings

Joep Beving · Solipsism

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