The Lord Of The Rings - The Return Of The King

This is not the book for a beginner piano player. While the music is faithful to the soundtrack, in places it looks like all the orchestra's sheet music got shoved into just a few staves. I've had to change some parts when I played them because they just...

didn't sound right, or were physically impossible to play. But, it's a great place to start and a fantastic tool for those who don't mind sorting through the sometimes-confusing transcriptions to find the useful bits.

I bought this book several years ago, and I have loved it. Since I was a novice alto saxophone player, I thought that I could play it without having to transpose it. I recently transposed one of the pieces and it fit perfectly with the soundtrack that I also have...

. I great buy!

I love the movies, an dI love the books, and the music really sounds so complex on the screen, and I can just play it at home, and it sounds just as good. It sounds so complicated, but after a little time I was able to play most of it...

. I haven't taken piano lessons for three years, and It was really easy to pick out. It sounds really cool, and I love it.

I love this music book!!! It is my favourite out of the 3 Piano/Vocals/Chords books for LOTR. What I like best about this book is that it includes everyone's themes. My favourite pieces in this book are "Into the West" and "The Return of the King" closely...

followed by "The Steward of Gondor". I play these songs on 3 different instruments (Piano, Guitar, and Tin Whistle) and enjoy them every time I play them!! I have only one thing I would change about it. I would replace "Use Well the Days" with "The Grey Havens". I can't understand why the song "Use Well the Days" is even in this book as no one knows it and you can only hear it if you buy a particular edition of TROTK soundtrack that comes with a DVD that has the song on it!!! I would HIGHLY recommend this book to any LOTR movies/soundtrack fan. It's Awesome!!!!!

I was very dissappointed by this book. I think it was poorly arranged for piano. In general, these are songs that need to be played by an orchestra in order to sound right. Piano is not capable of giving the right effect.