This article is about the song cycle, book, and recording. For the individual songs of this name, see The Road Goes Ever On (song).
The Road Goes Ever On: a Song Cycle
First edition (Houghton Mifflin)
Author
J. R. R. Tolkien (lyrics & main text) Donald Swann (music)
Illustrator
J. R. R. Tolkien (page decorations)
Language
English
Subject
Middle-earth
Genre
sheet music & commentary
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin (USA) George Allen & Unwin (UK)
Publication date
31 October 1967 (USA) 14 March 1968 (UK)[1]
Media type
print; in audio as Poems and Songs of Middle-earth
Preceded by
The Tolkien Reader
Followed by
Smith of Wootton Major
The Road Goes Ever On is a song cycle first published in 1967 as a book of sheet music and as an audio recording. The music was written by Donald Swann, and the words are taken from poems in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth writings, especially The Lord of the Rings.
The title of the song cycle is taken from "The Road Goes Ever On", the first song in the collection. The songs are designed to fit together when played in sequence. The ninth song "Lúthien Tinúviel" was added in an appendix rather than in the main sequence.
Swann performed the cycle for Tolkien, who approved of the music except for the Quenya song "Namárië"; he suggested it should be in the style of a Gregorian chant, which he hummed; Swann used that melody for the song.
^Christina Scull & Wayne G. Hammond (2006), The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide, HarperCollins, 'Chronology' volume, pp. 710 & 721; ISBN 978-0-618-39113-4
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