I meant that I have a book of the sheet music, rather than a recording, in case it wasn't clear. I picked it up at some random used book store, as one often finds these treasures.
I agree that a few of the settings are too Romantic. Sam's song in the tower, especially, doesn't make melodic sense without the accompaniment -- and did Mr. Swann think that someone shlepped a piano up the stairs into Cirith Ungol? But I am quite fond of the Hobbit walking-song. And Tolkien himself heard them in his lifetime and didn't disapprove, which makes me like them the more.
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I agree that a few of the settings are too Romantic. Sam's song in the tower, especially, doesn't make melodic sense without the accompaniment -- and did Mr. Swann think that someone shlepped a piano up the stairs into Cirith Ungol? But I am quite fond of the Hobbit walking-song. And Tolkien himself heard them in his lifetime and didn't disapprove, which makes me like them the more.