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Compliment leads to LOTR request

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I was totally chuffed when the neighbor adjacent to the porch where I practice brought up, totally out of the blue, that he really enjoyed hearing me play the whistle, and said that I was improving fast. But then he went on to make a request: the whistle tunes from LOTR and The Hobbit movies (yeah sorry, I hear y'all sighing in the background, but it's important to keep the neighbors happy, right?)

I'm old and originally loved the books. and while I thought Peter Jackson did a great job with the LOTR movies, I have no interest in seeing The Hobbit dragged out into 3 more separate movies (feel free to convince me otherwise). So while I'm happy to honor his request, I have no idea how many whistle-able tunes there are from the movies or even what they're called to look them up

I was willing to pay for licensed sheet music, but encountered what seemed to me to be an inexplicable publishing gap. There appear to be lots of youtube tutorials but those people talk too much and drive me crazy. I learned to read music as a kid so I just want the darn dots (or abc)! Any suggestions of where to look?

Even just a list of tune names to google would help. Thanks!

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squidgirl wrote: . . .I just want the darn dots . . .
LOL !

Wish I could help, but I'm not a movie-goer.

Good Luck !

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The neighbor probably wants the tune Concerning Hobbits. Googling it gives tons of sheet music in various keys.
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I know Concerning Hobbits is the main theme from LOTR, but I don't know of any others.
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Some, if not all, the titles can be seen here - https://www.musicnotes.com/sheet-music/ ... -the-rings

Another place, if you want to purchase - https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/th ... ic/5407012
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There is a really well done fan recut of the three Hobbit moves that strips them down to one . The Maple hill recut is really pretty good. There was still some stuff I'd have cut out but it was pretty taut. I wasn't paying attention to the music, I'll admit.

The recut below is extremely professional and well done.


http://www.maple-films.com/downloads.html
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Sorry, double post
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I was hired to play one or two LOTR pieces at a wedding a few years ago. (I can't remember if both pieces I played were from LOTR, or just one.)

I wrote out whistle arrangements for the two pieces I played, it's just a matter of finding them.

OK a quick look found this arrangement in D, should be fine for whistle https://www.pinterest.com/pin/116038127887483883/
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Thanks, everyone. I found an ABC transcription of Concerning Hobbits that MTGuru did a while back, and I've ordered the flute play-along book, since that seems like fun.

I decided I'm allowed to splurge on sheet music this week, since I'm waiting on a biopsy on what's probably just a minor bit of skin cancer on my forehead (my fair skin genes adapted to rainy islands in the Northern Atlantic clearly got too much sun time out on the water, obsessively sailing as a teen).

But still... retail therapy for the win! After all, it was on sale :lol: (covers the price of shipping, right? :D )
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I don't go to many movies, but if they came out with 3 new Hobbit/LOTR per year I would attend. Just saying.....
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