At The Sign Of The Prancing Pony (soundtrack)

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The Fellowship of the Ring - Original Soundtrack
  1. The Prophecy
  2. Concerning Hobbits
  3. The Shadow Of The Past
  4. The Treason Of Isengard
  5. The Black Rider
  6. At The Sign Of The Prancing Pony
  7. A Knife In The Dark
  8. Flight To The Ford
  9. Many Meetings
  10. The Council of Elrond
  11. The Ring Goes South
  12. A Journey In The Dark
  13. The Bridge Of Khazad Dum
  14. Lothlorien
  15. The Great River
  16. Amon Hen
  17. The Breaking of the Fellowship
  18. May It Be

At The Sign Of The Prancing Pony (3:14) is a track on Howard Shore's The Fellowship of the Ring soundtrack. As may be expected, it contains the music in the background of the scenes at the Prancing Pony Inn and Bree.

It begins slowly and slightly uneasily, with low strings accompanied by low brass in the background playing slowly and solemnly. There is a hint of the sinister, as it begins to speed up a little, and go higher on the scale. This goes on for more than a minute. As the last note fades off, quite suddenly a set of notes plays several times on the low strings. As it continues, the Black Rider theme begins to merge in, with the gong sounding in the background and the signature bass notes dancing down the scale. As it crescendoes, it soon escalates into the theme full-throttle. The chorus begins its frantic chanting. The theme slows down and pauses briefly, before launching into the Black Rider theme once more without the vocals. This turns into what looks at first like the Isengard theme, with its harsh, five-beat rhythm. But this soon fades away before the actual theme is employed, into slow strings playing a less sinister pattern. This fades away to end the track.