"I feel as if I was inside a song"The Presence of Music in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth and Songs and Poems set to Music

While it is the focus of this paper to analyse musical renditions of texts from The Lord of the Rings, there are a number of notable pieces that are not directly based on a particular text from the book. These pieces in one way or another represent what we can describe as the “Spirit of Tolkien” by stressing important aspects from the narrative. We will look at a number of these aspects with one particular, representative piece each.