 The full score was nominated at the 11th Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards, and "Song of the Lonely Mountain" received a nomination for the Houston Film Critics Society Awards.Allmusic's reviewer wrote favourably about the album, but noted that the soundtrack was not as "sweeping and epic as that for [Jackson's] "The Lord of the Rings"", attributing this to the smaller scale of Bilbo's adventure as compared to the events of "The Lord of the Rings".Examiner.com, however, was very positive and observed that "The Hobbit" soundtrack fitted the style and tone of "The Lord of the Rings", writing that the opening for "An Unexpected Journey" was much better than that of .