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I need to hear the entire track to really judge, but I can say that the Breaking of the Fellowship along with the music right after Gandalf falls joined the ranks of the greatest pieces of film music of all time.

In no order:

1)Journey to the Line from Hans Zimmer's Thin Red Line score -- One of the best pieces of music ever composed, I'd buy the entire CD just for this, although most of the music is great

2)Imperial March(or Vader's theme) -- Iconic, one of the most well-known, and if you listen carefully, you can see Williams basically recomposed the funeral dirge to get this fantastic theme

3)Glory -- It's hard to pick just one track from this CD, but I guess the Burning of the Town of Darien and track 9(just before the final assault on Fort Wagner) are the best, along with the mournful Harlem Boys Choir when the bodies of the 54th soldiers are being dumped into the ditch.

4)Heaven and Earth by Kitaro -- Another one with a number of good themes

5)Any of James Newton Howard's best 2 works -- Snow Falling on Cedars(tarawa and Humanity on Trial) UNbreakable. He is the "King of Strings" by far and his superhero theme in Unbreakable far surpasses Williams' Superman.

6)the aforementioned tracks by Shore.

7)Not sure how to classify collaborations with the vocalist Lisa Gerrard, but her tracks from Gladiator(with Hans Zimmer) and Insider are to be ranked near the top.