Woooo! Lord of the Rings: Return of the King won every single award it was nominated for at the Acadamy Awards last night, tieing it with movies like Titanic (sucked) and Ben Hur (good). if you combine the 3 movies into thier trilogy, then LoTR has won more awards than any series of movies in history :D.

Now I liked the LoTR soundtrack, but I would have loved to see it written by Peter Jackson's first choice of composers... Originally, Peter Jackson contacted the Fantasy Metal band Blind Guardian(site seems to be down for an update at the moment). Blind Guardian has long been working in the Tolkien genre. thier album "Somewhere Far Beyond" featured the 2 part "bards song" which outlined some of the storyline of the classic fiction "The Hobbit" and later released an entire album following the storyline of Tolkien's "The Silmarillion" which became one of the most popular metal albums in it's class. When Jackson contacted them, Hansi and crew were exstatic, but....P.J. wanted them to cut a demo in less than month, and stop production of thier Album "A Night at the Opera" and cancel subsuquent touring to complete the movie soundtrack. Hansi would have none of it, Blind Guardian fans were more important to the band.

Because LoTR did so well at the awards, I've decided to post a tidbit of what the soundtrack could have been. the song "Lord of the Rings" (pulled song) was released on BG's "Forgotten Tales" album, and is a decent example of thier work, however I think everyone should go out and buyNightfall in Middle Earth :) it's only like the best CD ever.