Mark, thanks for the links to the materials you mentioned, which I enjoyed reading very much.
I suppose all of us have our own definitions of 'Elvishness' that might overlap a lot, but are very rarely going to be
exactly the same; so it's interesting for me to read where people have found what they feel are '
elements of Elvishness in music'.
I agree that Tolkien would have enjoyed '
some of the music that has come out'. The problem, as you correctly pointed out, is that any decision we make about what music he might have enjoyed is affected by our personal biases.
Do you think that Tolkien's sanctioning of Donald Swan's interpretation of his works made it easier for later interpretations to be accepted by some fans?