--- title: "The Music of Middle-earth - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads in United States | Apple App Store" description: "The Music of Middle-earth is an unofficial companion app to index Howard Shore's music for the "Lord of the Rings" films. The score consists of more than 80 leitmotifs or themes that relate to specif" --- # The Music of Middle-earth — United States ![The Music of Middle-earth App Icon](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple221/v4/a2/a7/a6/a2a7a62e-fe25-dc45-2096-3f04b39e3a3d/AppIcon-0-0-1x_U007epad-0-1-85-220.png/434x0w.png) **Developer:** [Tizian Zeltner](https://apptail.io/developer/tizian-zeltner-QfOd) **Category:** Reference **Rating:** 3.2/5 (15 ratings) **Price:** Free **Bundle ID:** com.tizianzeltner.MusicOfMiddleEarth **Store:** Apple App Store **Country:** United States **Version:** 2.0.1 (released 2025-10-02) **Original Release:** 2014-08-25 **Languages:** English **App Store Link:** [Download on Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/app/id909933369) **AppTail Page:** [https://apptail.io/app/the-music-of-middle-earth-hTrd/united-states](https://apptail.io/app/the-music-of-middle-earth-hTrd/united-states) ## The Music of Middle-earth Description The Music of Middle-earth is an unofficial companion app to index Howard Shore's music for the "Lord of the Rings" films. The score consists of more than 80 leitmotifs or themes that relate to specific characters, locations or cultures of Middle-earth. This app attempts to list occurrences of all themes throughout the soundtrack and provides an interactive way to listen to them: - Play sections that contain specific themes. - Go through all themes that are part of a single track. - Display currently playing theme(s) while listening to the full tracks. Important: None of the music is distributed as part of this application and all albums need to be acquired independently. The app includes information about the following albums: The "Original Soundtrack" (OST) albums released between 2001 and 2003. The "Complete Recordings" (CR) albums released between 2005 and 2007. The "Rarities Archive" album released 2010 together with 'The Music of the Lord of the Rings Films' by Doug Adams. If you own some of the albums, you can listen to the tracks and all indexed sections directly from the application in an interactive way. Additionally, when listening to a track, the currently playing themes are displayed. More information and a desktop version (macOS & Windows) are available at: ## The Music of Middle-earth Screenshots - [Screenshot 1](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple211/v4/3f/18/d5/3f18d5e6-ccdd-36cf-8553-d615d08c45b8/mzl.kxlwnuve.png/1024x768.png) - [Screenshot 2](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple211/v4/f5/74/57/f57457e0-99b5-0a51-5f3d-6dab14fd6901/mzl.wrakbkvo.png/1024x768.png) - [Screenshot 3](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple211/v4/f1/cf/ce/f1cfced0-ca5f-3dfa-1bfd-5c4be3df6b0c/mzl.tyenlyio.png/1024x768.png) ## The Music of Middle-earth Rating Breakdown in United States - 5 stars: 6 (40%) - 4 stars: 2 (13%) - 3 stars: 1 (7%) - 2 stars: 1 (7%) - 1 stars: 5 (33%) ## The Music of Middle-earth Reviews in United States ### ***** "This is what I have wanted for a long time" Great app -- emilyk31174, 2024-01-17 ### ***** "Keeping the soundtrack in this app for free would be copyright" All the low reviews for this app are from people who thought it would come with the LOTR soundtrack. That makes no sense, and the app would be taken down in months for massive copyright infringement. This app is exactly what I have been looking for. The sheer volume of organized themes is extremely impressive, and helps me study and understand the techniques Howard Shore used. I had been looking for maybe an Internet article that listed all the different themes, but this is even better; an app that links to your itunes and classifies and organizes all 80+ themes that represent different people, ideas, cultures and locations in Middle-Earth. One of the best things about this trilogy is the music, and the app lets me access and view all of it in a new lens. So stop acting like you expected the app to come with all of the Lord of the Rings music for free. -- RedNinjaQG, 2023-10-07 ### ****- "Great app, overall" There seems to be confusion among ppl who previously downloaded this app. It does not give you the soundtracks. Rather, if you already have them on iTunes it links to them. It’s generally a great app. The albums it links to are: the “Original Soundtrack,” the “Complete Recording,” and the “Rarities Archive.” This last one doesn’t come up on my iTunes and I’ve never heard if it. I think there are a couple mistakes, like under the theme for “Rohan Fanfare,” the piece under the track “Uruk-Hai” is, I think, the theme for the Fellowship, not for Rohan. But I may be wrong. -- Webster's Rogue 1, 2019-07-17 ### ***** "Haters don’t understand." The people who said this app is “pointless” clearly just don’t understand its point at all. This app does not come with full movie soundtracks (as that would be pirating) but rather groups them thematically in a very well-considered manner. You can either just use the app to find a song’s name and look it up or if the albums are purchased on iTunes, the app can play them directly. I use this app for Dungeons and Dragons. I like to play to music and this app is super helpful in finding which parts of which songs of which movie’s score will fit best with the vibe I’m looking for. For example, if my heroes are adventuring through Dwarven ruins, I can open the app, scroll to the “Dwarf” section and find a number of songs from throughout the trilogy that are mostly used during scenes involving Dwarves. Then I simply type the title into YouTube or Spotify and listen away! Those who disliked the app are certainly allowed to do so, but I’ve given it 5 stars because it performs exactly as described in the App Store and would think that those people simply didn’t understand or had no use for its function. -- Nico Hendriks, 2019-04-14 ### *---- "Doesn’t provide any use" Short of a more detailed break down of scores, just buh the music, this doesn’t provide the songs -- LordKingOf, 2018-09-01 ### *---- "Pointless App" It is merely a filtering app for music you already have on your device. Does not contain any music by itself. All music must be purchased/downloaded separately from the app. Not sure what the concept of this app was... Anybody who would have the songs already, would more than likely have some sort of filtered album already. Useless app that serves no function and provides no benefit to the user. -- rnsia, 2018-04-11 ### **--- "Umm..." Looks like you new to have the music already, I was looking for a quick way of getting it -- Morgoth16731018, 2017-12-30 ### *---- "No. Just no." Don't waste you're time and data. You have to have the film score on iTunes to be able to hear the songs. No stars, if possible. -- Correnna, 2015-03-05 ### ****- "It's ok" I love it but it says that I don't have it even though I own a song from the ROTK complete recordings -- Jack Loftus, 2015-02-12 ### ***** "Best app I own" Great app good quality and fun to listen to. -- Rand!!!, 2014-09-04 [View all The Music of Middle-earth reviews and detailed analytics on AppTail](https://app.apptail.io/signup?utm_campaign=ai-crawl&utm_content=reviews) ## Apps Similar to The Music of Middle-earth - [Sky Guide](https://apptail.io/app/sky-guide-nTc/united-states) - [Skillshare: Creativity Classes](https://apptail.io/app/skillshare-creativity-classes-dCf/united-states) - [Yousician: Learn & Play Guitar](https://apptail.io/app/yousician-learn-play-guitar-gmg/united-states) - [The Great Courses](https://apptail.io/app/the-great-courses-inh/united-states) - [Unofficial Map for RDR2](https://apptail.io/app/unofficial-map-for-rdr2-inq/united-states) - [Exodus 90: Catholic Men's App](https://apptail.io/app/exodus-90-catholic-mens-app-vIq/united-states) - 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