The Howard Shore score to the last part of the LOTR trilogy contains plenty of magical moments that bring back instants of the brilliant movie to mind, and definitely accentuate the moments they accompany throughout it. But it felt the same way as the score to "The Fellowship of the Ring"... there wasn't the same level of flow or coherence in it that I felt in "The Two Towers". More simply put, the total didn't feel as great as the sum of the parts or as coherent a piece of work as the score to the second movie. Some of the songs, though (in particular, toward the end, and most of all Annie Lennox's "Into The West"), were truly brilliant and inspiring. As a result I give it four stars: very good, but not the best it could have been.