The Road Goes Ever On

Available for the first time in 25 years, this book of songs and sheet music, a collaboration between J. R. R. Tolkien and the composer Donald Swann, will delight Tolkien fans everywhere as the book to stand beside their copies of Lord of The Rings, the essays, poems and calendars. Includes a bonus CD containing performances of all the songs. In this song book the composer Donald Swann gives Tolkien characters Bilbo, Treebeard, Sam Gamgee and Tom Bombadil tunes for their ballads of the road. Professor Tolkien approved of this and added a tune of his own, decorated the book in his own hand and added a glossary of Elvish terms and lore that appears nowhere else. J.R.R. Tolkien’s book ‘The Fall of Númenor’ was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2022-11-07. – ASIN: 0007136552 | ISBN13: 9780007136551 | ISBN-13: 978-0007136551