“Lord of the Rings” movie fans, note: The Return of the King: The Complete Recordings was released last week. Four CDs of music, plus an audio DVD containing the same music in surround sound. This completes the Complete Recordings, a total of 10 CDs containing the complete score of all three films. Isn’t that insane?

I’ve got my copy, though I haven’t had a chance to listen to much of it yet (nor have I yet listened to even half of “The Two Towers”).

Here’s a review.

Also, the writer of the liner notes for all the complete recordings, Doug Adams (not this one, of course) is writing a book, The Music of the Lord of the Rings Films, due out next fall. And the book has a blog.