Is this really about Lord of the Rings directly? I feel it would be more helpful to you if you would just present it as your music, and sever the ties with Lord of the Rings. You are immediately inviting comparison with the movie score and what good does that do? Immediately the listener thinks "Oh he's got his own little music to that story, huh? How cute." However that is up to you if you want to invite that reaction. But why not just be inspired by whatever you're inspired by and let the listener decide what the music is "about"?
Musically I was impressed with this. That demo you posted before made me think this was no good, but I can see now it is very interesting music, and I'm particularly impressed - as a brass player - by the fact it is pure brass and percussion. Not the typical standard big Romantic orchestra done to death these days.
I liked the themes and your handling of the performance is realistic. I agree with Paul the mix could be more wet, though I don't think it's a problem. I noticed the legato horns at the beginning might need to be varied somewhat since you get into that familiar problem - repeating a legato phrase gives the EXACT SAME LEGATO. A danger peculiar to this library.
I heard a strange sound a couple times and didn't know what the hell it was at 2:05 and 4:36. Sounded like some primordial General Midi brass snuck into your mix. What happened there? An electronic buzzing noise masquerading as brass, though fortunately just briefly. Also, the trombones at 2:52 sounded like they needed legato instead of smoothly played sustains, whose tails sounded too overlapped.
But those criticisms are minor. I thought this was an imaginative, interesting piece.
