Chance Thomas wrote music for Shadows of Angmar that made a 2007 MMO feel like walking through the actual books. This is the original LOTRO score, and it set a bar that most online games still haven't touched. "Ride of the Nazgûl" carries genuine terror, not the cheap kind.
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"Hills of the Shire" is so perfectly pastoral it hurts, and "Bree-land Jig" has this folksy tavern energy that makes you want to order an ale and stay awhile. "The Doom of Edhelion" goes full elven tragedy. The range from "Autumn Ale" to "Garth Agarwen" alone covers more emotional ground than most full RPG scores.
If you ever rolled a character in early LOTRO, these twenty-six tracks are pure 2007 bottled in orchestral amber.