LOTR-inspired music?

[pegkerr]

Thanks to sternel, who told me about marcgunn's LJ, the man who compiles the Irish and Celtic Music podcast. He has a song there that I liked and downloaded, The Hobbit Journey Home. It made me wonder: what other songs do you know created by musicians as tribute to Lord of the Rings (or the Hobbit, I suppose). On my iPod I have Enya's "Lothlórien" and Carrie Newcomer's "Weathertop." I'd be interested in adding some other examples to my collection.

(Oh, but I'm not talking about death-metal musical tributes to the orcs, though. You can skip those. Not my style.)

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[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Sally Oldfield, chunks of the "Water Bearer" album, as I recall, are pretty clearly connected.

Then there were Donald Swan's settings of Tolkien's lyrics; which I, sadly, found very inappropriate.

[darkthirty.livejournal.com]

My faves are - >

Bo Hansson did a great Lord of the Rings tribute, which in my estimation is the best, after Howard Shore's. Also, David Arkenstone did a Lord of the Rings album, which is not bad, really, in fact, the best of his work I've heard, especially the solo piano songs, where the synth ones sound a little new age for my taste.

http://www.silence.se/bohansson/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Inspired_by_Middle_Earth

As well, Jack Bruce's "To Isengard" is an amazing song, probably my favourite Jack Bruce song ever...

[loup_noir]

I was a huge Bo Hansson fan back in the seventies, and somewhere in our moldering stack of vinyl is this LP.

[sternel.livejournal.com]

There's a whole album from the Bards interpreting LotR. You might also be interested in Emerald Rose, which was the entertainment for Peter Jackson's Oscar party. CD of music from said shindig here. (Both these bands play my local con so I've heard them quite a bit! =D)

[angevin2.livejournal.com]

I think you'd enjoy this album (http://www.flowinglass.com/sjewel.html) a great deal. :)

Though it is apparently out of print. I can upload some sample tracks if you like. :)

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

I'd be so grateful if you would, thanks!

[angevin2.livejournal.com]

Here are a few tracks I especially like -- I notice there's a sample of the Lay of Nimrodel on the website, too, but it really is very good.

Children's Song From Dale ("The king beneath the mountains, the king of carven stone") (http://www.sendspace.com/file/nywlo2)
The Lay of Nimrodel (http://www.sendspace.com/file/1p5dua)
Lament for Boromir (http://www.sendspace.com/file/0ho6hn)

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I have downloaded them and I'm sure I will enjoy them.

[febobe.livejournal.com]

Mostly Autumn has a beautiful Middle-earth album. :)

No death-metal musical tributes to the orcs.

There's Blind Guardian's Nightfall in Middle-earth, but it's more like metal tributes to the Noldor, so I can't say as I'd recommend it to you. Stick with Mostly Autumn; they're very lovely. Goodbye Alone is a very pretty song, and I love some of the others as well. (I've grown to love them in general from this; their Middle-earth album was my introduction to their music.)

[gwyneira.livejournal.com]

The Tolkien Ensemble -- I love them. They have three or four CDs, I think, some of which are out of print, but not all, and at least one has Christopher Lee reading some of the poetry. I particularly love their rendition of Aragorn singing Beren and Luthien, which is on "An Evening in Rivendell".

[gwyneira.livejournal.com]

Here are a couple of tracks from "An Evening in Rivendell":

Song of Beren and Luthien
The Road Goes Ever On and On

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

Does Led Zeppelin (The Battle of Evermore, Misty Mountain Hop) count as death metal? I wouldn't think so, especially since (according to Wikipedia) Sandy Denny is guest singer on The Battle of Evermore.

[fireflowerlass.livejournal.com]

oh, wow, that Marc Gunn song was absolutely beautiful! I must download it when I am at my own computer.

If you like Marc Gunn, his band the Brobdingnagian Bards has a whole CD of Lord of the Rings tribute music which is beautiful and is in the same style as "The Hobbit Journey Home." My favorites are "Ring of Hope" and their "Tolkien" song. :-)

[fireflowerlass.livejournal.com]

And where can I find that Irish and Celtic music podcast? :-)

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Here ya go:



You can follow the syndicated feed I set up at irishceltmusic.

[fireflowerlass.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!

[dreamflower]

Ellen Kushner did a whole program on "Sound and Spirit" on NPR about LOTR inspired music; here's the playlist:
http://www.wgbh.org/pages/pri/spirit/shows/059play.html

(I think you can still listen to the program online, as well.)

I have a CD by The Hobbitons, a Dutch group, but I don't know if it's still available.

And last year I got a CD called "In Elven Lands"
http://www.amazon.com/Elven-Lands-Fellowship-Jon-Anderson/dp/B000BSZA9M

My favorite song on it is "Evening Star"--an absolutely beautiful love song about Elwing and Earendil that even moves an avowed hobbit-girl like me!