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Ithilisa
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Jan 20 2015, 5:01am
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Middle Earth music
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I apologize if I'm posting this is the wrong location. Beyond the movie soundtracks and Leonard Nimoy's Bilbo song, does anyone know of any LOTR or other Middle Earth- inspired music out there? I know about the Song of Durin by Eurielle and someone at the Biblo Baggins Birthday Bash had told me about LOTR (Original London Production). Are there any others out there?
"I name you Elf-friend; and may the stars shine upon the end of your road!" - Gildor
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Ithilisa
Rivendell
Jan 20 2015, 5:22am
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Thanks Magpie!
"I name you Elf-friend; and may the stars shine upon the end of your road!" - Gildor
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Na Vedui
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Jan 20 2015, 5:43am
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Check out The Tolkien Ensemble
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- a mainly Danish group of singers and players (though I believe one of their composers is English); they did four albums called Evening in Rivendell, Night in Rivendell etc, setting to music the songs and poems in Lord of the Rings. Christopher Lee collaborated in at least one of the albums and recited some of the verses for them. I believe the albums have since been reissued in a different format. I like the Evening in Rivendell album best, I think, but there are some good tracks on the others too. Lots of their stuff is on YouTube - I hope it is legitimate! - it might give you an idea of whether you'd like it, anyhow. Try "There is an inn, a merry old inn", Galadriel's song of Eldamar, Song of Durin (Dwarves as Welsh miners' male voice choir, yay!), Song of Beren & Luthien for a varied sample.
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ponybarfly
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Jan 20 2015, 12:00pm
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Love Stephen Oliver's BBC Radio Soundtrack
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I always had a soft spot for Leonard Rosenman's soundtrack for the ralph Bakshi cartoon, but without a doubt Stephen Oliver's score for the Radio 4 adaptation has much to recommend it, one highlight being the March of the Ents.
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Gwytha
Rohan
Jan 20 2015, 2:49pm
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The BBC radio play that was done in the seventies has some wonderful music
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plus it's the most faithful dramatization of the book that I know of. Its comes in a four disc set and the fourth disc is just the music. A composer named Donald Swann collaborated with Tolkien at some point to produce a book of basically sheet music to some of the songs. I've never heard any of them performed but they might be on You Tube.
Growth after all is not so much a matter of change as of ripening, and what alters most is the degree of clarity with which we see one another. -Edith Pargeter
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Gwytha
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Jan 20 2015, 8:21pm
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I guess I wasn't payiing attention or I would have realized
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you had already mentioned the BBC soundtrack. I especially love what he did with "The Road Goes Ever On" and a couple of the songs Sam did--exp the song about Gil-Galad and the one he sang in the tower of Cirith Ungol when he was searching for Frodo. "Beyond All Towers Strong and High," I think it was. Bill Nighy, who played Sam so well, also displays a wonderful singing voice in that series.
Growth after all is not so much a matter of change as of ripening, and what alters most is the degree of clarity with which we see one another. -Edith Pargeter
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Ithilisa
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Jan 20 2015, 8:55pm
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Wow, I really like the Tolkien Ensemble. I looked them up on iTunes and they've got a lot of great stuff. I didn't find the Evening at Rivendell, etc. on there, but they do have the Best of the Tolkien Ensemble and a couple other albums. I love the ones with Christopher Lee and their hobbity music. I'll be getting more of their stuff in the future. Thanks!
"I name you Elf-friend; and may the stars shine upon the end of your road!" - Gildor
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Ithilisa
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Jan 20 2015, 9:03pm
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Thanks for the info Ponybarfly, those are two nice soundtracks. Glad to find them on YouTube.
"I name you Elf-friend; and may the stars shine upon the end of your road!" - Gildor
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Ithilisa
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Jan 20 2015, 9:11pm
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Thanks for the info, Gwytha, I'll see if I can find that. I have the 9- disc version of a LOTR radio drama, which I like, but there are parts where they include quite a lot of the book but leave out just enough of parts like Passing of the Grey Company to drive me nuts. Thanks both Gwytha and Dormouse for the info on David Swann, I found those tracks on YouTube. I like "Bilbo's Last Song." Dormouse, thanks for the links to those videos.
"I name you Elf-friend; and may the stars shine upon the end of your road!" - Gildor
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Eruclauron
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Jan 20 2015, 9:25pm
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Forgive me if any have mentioned these before.
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But I know of quite a few, depending on what you're looking for: The video game soundtracks: Shadow of Mordor is the most recent, and you can get it on iTunes or Amazon (if you want an MP3), and I think it's really good. Then there's the War in the North soundtrack, which has a very movie-esque sound to it, and you can get physical disc or MP3 version off Amazon. If you can find them, The Lord of the Rings Online soundtracks are pretty good, though perhaps not what you'd be looking for: I think I enjoy them more since I play the game frequently, and I remember my adventures as I listen. The older movie soundtracks: By those I mean the old animated movies. The only soundtrack I've been able to find of those for actual purchase is The Lord of the Rings one, which sounds pretty good, but you may want to listen to it on YouTube to see if it's what you're looking for. Other: Karliene has quite a few Middle-earth songs on her YouTube channel, and up for download on her website. Also, The Lonely Mountain Band has a bunch of Middle-earth songs, on three (I think) albums. I hope I helped!
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dreamflower
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Jan 21 2015, 3:05pm
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Here are some of mine: In Elven Lands Jon Anderson, The FellowshipI love all of these, but my favorite tracks are "The Silver Bowl", "The Man in the Moon", "Beware the Wolf" and "The Evening Star". The Starlit Jewel BroceliandeAll of these are really good settings of Tolkien's lyrics. My favorite is "Children's Song from Dale" because that's one I'd never heard set to music before. Back to Mercy (All That is Gold) Brooks WilliamsThere's only one Tolkien song on the CD: an absolutely wonderful setting of "All that is gold does not glitter...". I will listen to that one over and over. And the rest of his songs are nice and varied in the folk/rock tradition. Lord of the Rings the Musical Original London Cast Recording I really love this. It's incredibly dense and varied musically. Another song I will play endlessly is "Now and for Always", a duet with Frodo and Sam that blows me away. But most of the music is really worthy! (In spite of some rather odd lyrics in "The Road Goes On"--one line always has me imagining Pippin stuffing a goat into a churn...) Songs from Middle Earth The HobbitonsThe Hobbitons were (are?) a Dutch amateur fan group. I heard about them on Ellen Kushner's radio show "Sound and Spirit" on the episode dedicated to Tolkien, and ordered their CD. It is not technically the best of Tolkien music I've heard, but it makes up for it with the sheer exuberance of the performers. And some of the songs really are quite good. (BTW I think you can still find and listen to that "Sound and Spirit" episode online, though the link I used to have no longer works--tons of Tolkien-inspired music, and all of it pre-movie era.) I have The Road Goes Ever On songbook by Tolkien and Swann mentioned above, but have never actually heard the recordings. I painstakingly learned to peck out the melodies on the piano 40-some-odd years ago, and I confess that most of those tunes are still what I hear in my head when I read the books, especially "I Sit Beside the Fire" and "In Western Lands".
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Elvanui
Rivendell
Jan 21 2015, 3:30pm
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The Lonely Mountain Band, who Eruclauron mentioned, are wonderful! Here's a link to one of their albums on their site http://minstrelsongs.com/album/second-breakfast and there are others on there that you can either stream for free or pay to download (I am also biased because they're my Kin on Lord of the Rings Online), but objectively also they're very good
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ponybarfly
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Jan 21 2015, 3:54pm
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I'm really pleased about this thread being started because I never knew about the London show recording. I saw this too and it was pretty good, after which I had the making of book bought as a gift. But yes I love the radio version, and as was said Bill Nighy is great, as are the rest of the cast. I was slightly disappointed went I bought the vinyl LP of the music back in the day because they had a 'proper' singer replace him on the Gil-Galad song. Of course it matters not now we have the play anyway. But the album does give us a straight rendition of things like Forth Rode the King, and those Ent songs which are phenomenal. I only wish we could have had the same confrontation between Gandalf and Saruman on the balcony of Orthanc in the movies that we had in the radio version. Marvelous. But I suppose it means we have reasons for enjoying both versions.
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Ithilisa
Rivendell
Jan 22 2015, 2:40am
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I found them on Amazon like you said, Magpie. Thanks for the info. I like them both.
"I name you Elf-friend; and may the stars shine upon the end of your road!" - Gildor
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Ithilisa
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Jan 22 2015, 2:50am
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Thanks for chiming in, Dreamflower
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I really like the LOTR: The Musical as well. You named two of my favorites on there. I also love and think there are some odd lyrics in The Cat and the Moon.. Do you know what they mean by "broadsides went boom"? Also being interested in tall ships, I know what that would mean in a historical nautical sense, but I have no clue what it means in this context. I'm checking out what I can find of your other suggestions on Amazon.
"I name you Elf-friend; and may the stars shine upon the end of your road!" - Gildor
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Brethil
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Jan 22 2015, 9:13pm
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Lots of good music here Gramma!
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That Audioslave album is one great song after another. I Am the Highway is fantastic. A Sort of Homecoming by U2 always makes me think of Feanor.
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Na Vedui
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Jan 23 2015, 4:30pm
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In the "makes me think of" department
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- Elgar's "In the South" is always Gondor for me (though he meant it for Italy). It's on YouTube - several times - if anyone would like to hear it.
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Ithilisa
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Jan 25 2015, 4:27am
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Thanks for the suggestions, grammaboodawg
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I'll have to look those up.
"I name you Elf-friend; and may the stars shine upon the end of your road!" - Gildor
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Ithilisa
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Jan 25 2015, 4:28am
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I'll check those out as well.
"I name you Elf-friend; and may the stars shine upon the end of your road!" - Gildor
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