TOLKIEN, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel]. The Road Goes Ever On. A Song Cycle. Music by Donald Swann. With decorations by J.R.R. Tolkien and Samuel Hanks Bryant. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967. 4to, xii 68pp. Red cloth pictorially stamped in gold. Two-color decorations on nearly every page. A fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket.

 

First edition. A collection of seven songs originally published without music in The Lord of the Rings and The Adventures of Tom Bombadil. With Tolkien’s approval, Donald Swann set this song cycle to music, basing the melodies on traditional English folk music. A delight for any Tolkien collector!