The soundtrack for Amazon's Lord of the Rings prequel has afforded composer Bear McCreary a canvas as vast as Middle-earth to play with: Howard Shore-ish riffs, unique orchestral pieces, and increasingly in season two, lots of song work. We already know the lumbering hill-troll Damrod is getting his own heavy metal infused piece this season, and this week, McCreary weaved one of Tolkien's own poems into a beautiful song to welcome Tom Bombadil to the show. But the composer has a much more obscure, and much more intriguing ditty from the franchise's adaptive past he wants to make a nod to.
That song? "Where There's a Whip, There's a Way" from the Rankin Bass adaptation of Return of the King. "I'm looking. I'm looking for the moment," McCreary said in a recent Instagram live chat of his desire to bring the song to Rings of Power (via /Film).
"It hasn't happened yet but I would love to make that happen." In the 1980 follow-up to the studio's adaptation of The Hobbit, "Where There's a Whip, There's a Way" plays when Sam and Frodo sneak their way into..
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