The Sounds of Middle Earth

The 'Lord of The Rings' films took the world by storm in the early 2000s, and so you may excuse a low res video below taken form the DVDs. Both videos cover how sound design and recording was used on the films, with many unorthodox approaches and details to look out for. The commentaries have been pulled from The Lord of the Rings: Motion Picture Trilogy Blu-ray. Here are the timestamps:

00:00 THE WATCHER IN THE WATER

01:26 WIZARD FIGHT

03:52 MORIA ORCS

07:04 CAVE-TROLL

08:52 BALROG

09:53 MORIA WORLDIZING

10:58 NAZGUL / RINGWRAITHS

13:23 THE ONE RING

16:41 GRIMA WORMTONGUE

18:11 GOLLUM

20:05 URUK-HAI CROWDS

21:47 FANGORN FOREST

23:57 GANDALF THE WHITE

25:35 AMBUSH OF THE WARGS

26:42 FELLBEAST

27:49 THE ONE RING

28:50 BATTLE OF HELM'S DEEP

31:16 SIEGE OF MINAS TIRITH

33:09 MINAS MORGUL

36:25 PATHS OF THE DEAD

37:52 SHELOB

41:37 PALANTIR

43:27 BATTLE OF THE PELENNOR FIELDS

49:02 MUMAKIL

51:13 TOWER OF CIRITH UNGOL

53:21 WIND

55:45 THE ONE RING

57:28 COLLAPSE OF BARAD-DUR

Here's a short doc from the DVDs themselves: 
 

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