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The Hobbit Playlist
This playlist mirrors Bilbo’s cozy-to-courage arc in The Hobbit: warm, hearth-like textures for the Shire, then widening orchestral and folk energy for roads, rivalries, and peril. Tracks are chosen to echo dwarves’ determination, the eerie under-mountain world, and the looming, fiery threat of Smaug—without becoming one-note throughout the journey.
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Track List
20 songs
1
The Planets, Op. 32: I. Mars, the Bringer of War
Gustav Holst · Holst: The Planets / Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves; Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Fallis
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Vodník (The Water Goblin), Op. 107, B. 195
Antonín Dvořák · Dvořák: My Home, The Water Goblin, The Golden Spinning Wheel, The Noon Witch, The Wild Dove & The Hero's Song
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3
Die Walküre, WWV 86B / Act 3: Ride of the Valkyries (Arr. Frackenpohl)
Richard Wagner · Wagner for Brass
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Scheherazade - Symphonic Suite Op. 35: I. The Sea and Sinbad's Ship
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov · Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade . Borodin: Polovtsian Dances
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Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46: IV. In the Hall of the Mountain King
Edvard Grieg · Jean Fournet - The Concertgebouw Recordings
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6
Vltava (The Moldau)
Bedřich Smetana · Dvorak: Slavonic Dances
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The Lark Ascending
Ralph Vaughan Williams · Night Moods ... Twilight Hour
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8
The Moldau
James Last · The Best Of Classics Up To Date
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9
The Prince of Denmark's March
Jeremiah Clarke · Festliche Weihnachten 2023
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10
The Cave
Midnite String Quartet · MSQ Performs Mumford & Sons
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11
Home
Maria Loka · Home
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12
Mountain Sound
Of Monsters and Men · Música por los aires
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13
The Wolves (Act I and II)
Bon Iver · For Emma, Forever Ago
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14
Send Me On My Way
Rusted Root · Have A Great Day!
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15
The Weight
The Band · Flower Power Classics
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16
Kingdom Come
Manowar · Kings of Metal
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17
Crazy
Gnarls Barkley · St. Elsewhere
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18
I'm Still Here
John Hartford · RCA Country Legends: John Hartford
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19
Whole Wide World
Wreckless Eric · Class of '78
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