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Yes! Thank you, this is actually how I feel about my own work as well haha.

I guess my goal isn't to avoid Howard Shore, but not to distinctly follow him either. He very much follows this late-romantic style of composing, and I want to try to draw on early music more as I do this, so medieval, renaissance, ancient and baroque, but also with a strong root in traditional and folk music.

Whats funny aboutyou  wanting the full orchestra to come in, is that the instrumentation called out for "Over the Misty Mountains" is like the grey area between chamber music and an orchestra:

2 viols "as big as themselves"

3 flutes

1 harp (played by Thorin)

2 fiddles

1 drum (played by Bombur, lol)

2 clarinets

Then for under the mountains dark and tall:

"Then the dwarves themselves brought forth harps and instruments regained from the hoard, and made music to soften his mood; but their song was not as elvish song, and was much like the song they had sung long before in Bilbo's little hobbit-hole."

I think I want to continue this project by continuing to collect and learn the instruments necessary. I'm actually building  a lyre right now and plan to build a harp, and really just get comfortable with it since the harp is one of the core elements of Dwarvish music, and lots of LotR music. I don't like the feel of VST harp on piano, it just doesn't feel correct or natural to the instrument itself, like it won't sound natural enough. The only virtual instrument in my tracks is piano, which is my primary instrument.

Over the Misty Mountains Cold as a poem also has a building quality to it.

It's been as much a research project as a compositional project. Heh.