The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

Howard Shore’s score available on 12/09/2014

WaterTower Music has announced the release of the soundtrack to The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies, with music composed by Academy Award® winner Howard Shore, one of film music’s most respected, honored, and active composers and conductors. The soundtrack also contains an original song performed by Billy Boyd, who starred as Peregrin Took in The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy. The soundtrack will be released in two configurations: a standard 2 CD set and a Special Edition set, also with 2 CDs, and featuring extended tracks, bonus tracks, and expanded liner notes. On December 9th, both versions of the soundtrack will be available digitally and on CD, except the 2CD Special Edition, which will be available for purchase on December 16. Academy Award-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies, a production of New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, is the third in a trilogy of films adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien. The film will be released in theaters worldwide on Wednesday, December 17, 2014, with select international territories releasing on December 10, 2014.



The Battle Of The Five Armies is Howard Shore’s final musical voyage to Middle-earth – concluding his work with director Peter Jackson on both The Lord of the Ringsand The Hobbit trilogies.

Track list Deluxe Edition

Disc 1
1. Fire and Water (5:57)
2. Shores of the Long Lake (4:01)
3. Beyond Sorrow and Grief (4:12)
4. Guardians of the Three (5:48)
5. The Ruins of Dale (3:39)
6. The Gathering of the Clouds (5:52)
7. Mithril (3:03)
8. Bred for War (3:20)
9. A Thief in the Night (4:14)
10. The Clouds Burst (4:13)
11. Battle for the Mountain (4:38)

Disc 2
1. The Darkest Hour (5:33)
2. Sons of Durin (4:24)
3. The Fallen (4:56)
4. Ravenhill (5:48)
5. To the Death (7:22)
6. Courage and Wisdom (5:10)
7. The Return Journey (4:18)
8. There and Back Again (4:20)
9. The Last Goodbye, Billy Boyd (4:07)
10. Ironfoot (6:11)
11. Dragon-Sickness (Deluxe Edition only) (3:52)
12. Thrain (Deluxe Edition only) (3:25)