The Tolkien Coming of Age Club

[Liriodendron]

Hi Mark! When I read Tolkien, I have a bad habit of "gobbling" up the words to find out what's happening next. Often, the songs and poems are VERY briefly skimmed [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] Listening to the tape helps me take it all in, though between you and me, I think I could have done a little better on a couple of the songs! Oh, how I would have loved to have been the person to read and sing the songs for The Hobbit. How did the melodies come about? I really have a nice one in my head for the first dwarvish songfest sung low in the firelight at Bilbo's house. "Far over the Misty Mountains old".....Narating that book would have been some dream job!! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]