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Re: Conlang music

From:Dirk Elzinga <dirk.elzinga@...>
Date:Thursday, January 8, 2009, 17:49
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:20 AM, David McCann <david@...>wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 21:57 -0500, Herman Miller wrote: > > > "Poems and Songs of Middle-Earth", an LP of some of Tolkien's songs and > > poetry, contains a recording of "Namarie" (sung in Quenya), and "A > > Elbereth Gilthoniel" (in Sindarin). > > The settings were by Donald Swann (remember Flanders and Swann?). They > (and settings of some of Tolkien's English poems) were published, with > piano and guitar accompaniments, in Tolkien and Swann's "The Road goes > ever on" (Allen & Unwin, 1968). The Elvish texts have calligraphy and > linguistic notes by Tolkien. >
There was another LP with music by a Finnish composer inspired by the Lord of the Rings. I don't remember the name. But if I do remember correctly, there was a setting of the Ring inscription (in the Black Speech) as well as of Namarie. I'll have to see if it's still in my box of LPs when I get home. Dirk