![]() ![]() In addition, Tolkien contributed decorations in the form of elvish script for the top and bottom of every page of sheet music, and tailpieces for the spaces at the ends of the poems. Tolkien's notes in the book provided information about the First Age of Middle-earth that was not otherwise publicly available until 1977, when The Silmarillion appeared. The book contains one of the longest samples of the constructed language Quenya, in the shape of the song "Namárië", as well as the Sindarin prayer " A Elbereth Gilthoniel", with grammatical explanations. The text provides Tolkien's notes and translations of the two Elvish poems in the song cycle, on pages 63–76 of the 2002 edition. Non-musical materials One of Tolkien's decorative tailpieces created for the book Given to Tolkien's secretary, Margaret Joy Hill, after his death "Lúthien Tinúviel" has an ambiguous status: it is shown as song 9 of the cycle in the table of contents, but it is placed in an appendix, not the main cycle, with a note that it could be incorporated into the main sequence by singing it in D major, described by Swann as "a more baritonal key". A Elbereth Gilthoniel forms a continuation of song 6, "I Sit Beside the Fire", in the text, but is a separate track on the CD. The following songs were added to the CD (but not the LP) after the first edition. Keys are given, but Swann notes in the foreword to the third edition that transposition is acceptable. The 1967 song-cycle (as released on LP and CD) is as follows. The sheet music for the songs occupies most of the book, pages 1–62 and 78–84 in the 2002 edition. ![]() Tolkien approved of the music except for "Namárië", and hummed its melody Swann used that for the song. In his foreword to the second edition, Swann explains that he performed the song cycle to Tolkien in Priscilla Tolkien's garden. The sole exception is the Quenya song " Namárië", which was based on a tune by Tolkien himself it has some affinities to Gregorian chant. Much of it resembles English traditional music or folk music. With Tolkien's approval, Donald Swann wrote the music for this song cycle, consisting of settings of some of Tolkien's poetry in The Lord of the Rings. His professional knowledge of works such as Beowulf shaped his fictional world of Middle-earth, including his fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien was a scholar of English literature, a philologist and medievalist interested in language and poetry from the Middle Ages, especially that of Anglo-Saxon England and Northern Europe. Further information: Poetry in The Lord of the Rings and Music of Middle-earth ![]()
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