Something for Thursday

Late today, sorry! Sometimes you just need to return to the basics...so here's a brief track from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, "A Far Green Country". This plays when Gandalf is talking about death to Pippin, and if memory serves, this is the first time this particular melody is heard:


That brief tune is heard again, in full, at the film's end as part of the gorgeous song sung by Annie Lennox, "Into the West":