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The music of the American fantasy television series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power mostly consists of an original film score by Bear McCreary. The series is based on J. R. R. Tolkien's history of Middle-earth, primarily material from the appendices of the novel The Lord of the Rings. It is set thousands of years before the novel and depicts the major events of Middle-earth's Second Age. The series was developed by J. D. Payne and Patrick McKay for the streaming service Amazon Prime Video. McCreary was approached in 2019, and began writing themes or leitmotifs in July 2021. The series is not a continuation of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies and McCreary was contractually prevented from quoting any of the themes that Howard Shore composed for those films. Despite this, he hoped to create musical continuity between his score and Shore's. McCreary eschewed the common industry practice of using other composers to write additional music, ensuring a consistent musical approach for the whole series. He composed nine hours of music for the first season and eight hours for the second. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_o...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
