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The music, as for the rest of the trilogy, was composed by Shore. He watched the assembly cut of the film, and had to write seven minutes of music per day to keep up with the schedule. The score sees the full introduction of the Gondor theme, originally heard during Boromir's speeches at the Council of Elrond in The Fellowship of the Ring and at Osgiliath in The Two Towers' Extended Edition. Shore also used the Gondor theme with the new ascending coda (which is unique to this film) in his score for the trailer of the film.

The score features the London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Voices, the London Oratory School Schola and featured vocal soloists. The score is the most expansive of the three: scoring effectively the entire movie length, not including additional music written for the trailer and various alternate versions released to the public. It also uses the biggest forces in the series: sections of the score call for two sets of timpani, eight trumpets (and possibly a similar increase in the size of the horn, trombone and tuba section, as well), 85 singers in the mixed choir with additional players for all-male and all-female sections, over fifty in the boy choir and many instrumentalist "bands" playing Celtic and eastern instruments such as tin whistle or pan flute, on stage or off of it. One piece of music required an instrument invented and crafted especially for the film: a fiddle with four pairs of strings instead of single strings.

01 A Storm Is Coming 2:52
02 Hope And Memory 1:46
03 Minas Tirith 3:37 (Featuring Soloist – Ben Del Maestro)
04 The White Tree 3:25
05 The Steward Of Gondor 3:53 (Featuring – Billy Boyd)
06 Minas Morgul 1:58
07 The Ride Of Rohirrim 2:09
08 Twilight And Shadow 3:30 (Featuring Soloist – Renée Fleming)
09 Cirith Ungol 1:44
10 Andúril 2:35 (Music By – Howard Shore; Text By – J.R.R. Tolkien)
11 Shelob's Lair 4:07
12 Ash And Smoke 3:25
13 The Fields Of The Pelennor 3:26
14 Hope Fails 2:21
15 The Black Gate Opens 4:02 (Featuring – Renée Fleming, Viggo Mortensen; Featuring Flute, Tin Whistle – Sir James Galway)
16 The End Of All Things 5:13 (Featuring Soloist – Renée Fleming)
17 The Return Of The King 10:14 (Featuring Flute, Tin Whistle – Sir James Galway; Soloist – Renée Fleming)
18 The Grey Havens 5:48 (Featuring Flute – Sir James Galway)
19 Into The West 5:48 (Music, Words By – Annie Lennox, Fran Walsh, Howard Shore; Performer – Annie Lennox)