The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey soundtrack details announced

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has revealed details of its official soundtrack(s), including full tracklisting.

It’s ideal for any particularly rabid fans, who want to pore over the song titles in an attempt to work out just what we’ll see in the first part of Peter Jackson’s whopping three-part epic.

The spoiler-averse need not worry, are there are no ‘[ Character name ] dies’ clangers among the song titles. It’s nice to see some chapter titles referenced though, with fans of Tolkien’s original novel sure to recognise ‘An Unexpected Party’, ‘Riddles In The Dark’ and ‘Out Of The Frying-Pan’.

And there’ll be a fair amount of Dwarf warbling, if the soundtrack is anything to go by.

Composer Howard Shore, reprising musical duties after doing a magnificent job on The Lord Of The Rings , said, ““I have looked forward to returning to the imaginative world of Middle-earth for quite a while. I read all of the books by Tolkien, including The Hobbit , when I was in my twenties, and his deep love of nature and all things green resonates deeply with me.”

Here’s the tracklisting of the special and standard edition soundtracks:

The Hobbit Special Edition Tracklist

Disc 1:

1. My Dear Frodo
2. Old Friends (Extended Version)
3. An Unexpected Party (Extended Version)
4. Blunt The Knives performed by The Dwarf Cast
5. Axe Or Sword?
6. Misty Mountains performed by Richard Armitage and The Dwarf Cast
7. The Adventure Begins
8. The World Is Ahead
9. An Ancient Enemy
10. Radagast The Brown (Extended Version)
11. The Trollshaws
12. Roast Mutton (Extended Version)
13. A Troll-hoard
14. The Hill Of Sorcery
15. Warg-scouts

Disc 2:

1. The Hidden Valley
2. Moon Runes (Extended Version)
3. The Defiler
4. The White Council (Extended Version)
5. Over Hill
6. A Thunder Battle
7. Under Hill
8. Riddles In The Dark
9. Brass Buttons
10. Out Of The Frying-Pan
11. A Good Omen
12. Song Of The Lonely Mountain (Extended Version) performed by Neil Finn
13. Dreaming Of Bag End

Exclusive Bonus Tracks

14. A Very Respectable Hobbit
15. Erebor
16. The Dwarf Lords
17. The Edge Of The Wild

The Hobbit Standard Edition Tracklist

Disc 1:

1. My Dear Frodo
2. Old Friends
3. An Unexpected Party
4. Axe Or Sword?
5. Misty Mountains performed by Richard Armitage and The Dwarf Cast
6. The Adventure Begins
7. The World Is Ahead
8. An Ancient Enemy
9. Radagast The Brown
10. Roast Mutton
11. A Troll-hoard
12. The Hill Of Sorcery
13. Warg-scouts

Disc 2:

1. The Hidden Valley
2. Moon Runes
3. The Defiler
4. The White Council
5. Over Hill
6. A Thunder Battle
7. Under Hill
8. Riddles In The Dark
9. Brass Buttons
10. Out Of The Frying-Pan
11. A Good Omen
12. Song Of The Lonely Mountain performed by Neil Finn
13. Dreaming Of Bag End

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey soundtrack is released on 10 December 2012, before the film opens in the UK on 14 December 2012.