Is “O Fortuna” in The Lord of the Rings?

No.

Just an afterthought….the words of the “O Fortuna” part of the Carmina Burana when translated are about hopelessness, but the music is so powerful and moving….the build up and crescendo and climactic end….always feels like battle and power victorious…..so different, the music from the words.

Here’s your latin lesson for the day:

O Fortuna,

velut Luna

statu variabilis,

semper crescis

aut decrescis;

vita detestabilis

nunc obdurat

et tunc curat

ludo mentis aciem;

egestatem,

potestatem,

dissolvit ut glaciem.

Sors immanis

et inanis,

rota tu volubilis,

status malus,

vana salus

semper dissolubilis;

obumbrata

et velata

mihi quoque niteris;

nunc per ludum

dorsum nudum

fero tui sceleris.

Sors salutis

et virtutis

mihi nunc contraria;

est affectus

et defectus

semper in angaria.

hac in hora

sine mora

cordae pulsum tangite!

quod per sortem

sternit fortem,

mecum omnes plangite!

O Fortune, like the moon of ever changing state, you are always waxing or waning; hateful life now is brutal, now pampers our feelings with its game; poverty, power, it melts them like ice.

Fate, savage and empty, you are a turning wheel, your position is uncertain, your favour is idle and always likely to disappear; covered in shadows and veiled you bear upon me too; now my back is naked through the sport of your wickedness.

The chance of prosperity and of virtue is not now mine; whether willing or not, a man is always liable for Fortune’s service. At this hour without delay touch the strings! Because through luck she lays low the brave, all join with me in lamentation!

Carmina Burana used to be used in the Old Spice Adverts. Fraid it never made it to the Lord of The Rings trilogy – but it sounds very much as if it should have.

Well, you’ve heard bits that sound like it. I’m sure every composer who has ever written music for action or power sequences in film listen to it for inspiration (and Wagner’s Ring stuff etc…). I hear homages in lots of films scores to the older classical composers.

Howard shore wrote all of the music for the soundtrack(s).

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YES…THE LORD OF THE RINGS IS A GREAT MOVIE! I LOVE THE WAY IT WAS FILMED.

I think you mean the song The Black Rider (starting with 1:10) from LR. It resembles very much

I hope that is what you are looking for

No, it isn’t. Howard Shore made all of the soundtracks for the movies. 🙂