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5 unusual facts about The Road Goes Ever On

A Elbereth Gilthoniel

In 1967 Donald Swann published a musical rendition in the musical score of the song cycle The Road Goes Ever On.

Bilbo's Last Song

Sometime after Tolkien's death, Joy Hill showed the poem to Donald Swann, who liked the poem so much that he set it to music and included it in the second edition of The Road Goes Ever On in 1978.

Errantry

The sheet music and an audio recording are part of the song-cycle The Road Goes Ever On.

The Road Goes Ever On

The third edition, published in 1993, added music for "Lúthien Tinúviel" from The Silmarillion, which had earlier appeared in The Songs of Donald Swann: Volume I.

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Prior to the publication of The Silmarillion, this introduction was the only publicly available source for certain information about the First Age of Middle-earth.