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The Way of Kings Playlist
“The Way of Kings” moves between epic storms, oaths of duty, and intimate struggles with identity—so this playlist alternates between grounded instrumental momentum and lyric-driven themes of resolve, grief, and rebirth. The instrumental half leans into stormy, fate-like orchestral motion and solemn conviction, while the vocal half nods to the book’s recurring bonds of promise, survival, and transformation.
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20 songs
1
Also Sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30: Sunrise
Richard Strauss · Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30
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The Planets, Op. 32: IV. Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity
Gustav Holst · Holst: The Planets
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Finlandia, Op. 26
Jean Sibelius · Sibelius: Finlandia; Valse triste; Tapiola; The Swan of Tuonela
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Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95 "From the New World": II. Largo
Antonín Dvořák · Dvořák: Symphony No. 9, From the New World
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Flight of the Bumblebee
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov · Humoresque - Favorite Violin Encores [Expanded Edition]
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Unstoppable
Sia · Unstoppable
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King And Lionheart
Of Monsters and Men · My Head Is An Animal
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Flightless Bird, American Mouth
Iron & Wine · The Shepherd's Dog
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Set Fire to the Rain
Adele · 21
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Don't Know Why
Norah Jones · Come Away With Me (Super Deluxe Edition)
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ocean eyes
Billie Eilish · Ocean Eyes
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Love Is Noise
The Verve · Forth
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13
I Will Possess Your Heart
Death Cab for Cutie · Narrow Stairs
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Concerning Hobbits
Howard Shore · The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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An Ending, A Beginning
Dustin O'Halloran · Other Lights
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An Ending (Ascent) - Remastered 2005
Brian Eno · Epic Film Scores
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To Build A Home
The Cinematic Orchestra · Ma Fleur
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Dawn
Alexandre Desplat · American Pastoral (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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JUPITER
Gustav Holst · PLAY FOR JAPAN with 千の音色でつなぐ絆
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