Middle Earth Poems/Songs 1967 Vinyl LP, Read by JRR Tolkien, Excellent Condition
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Poems & Songs of Middle Earth. Rare Vintage 1967, 12” Vinyl LP, 33 1/3 RPM. Record is in Excellent condition; cardboard sleeve is in Very Good condition with a 4 inch split along top right cover edge. Poems read by JRR Tolkien. Music: words by JRR Tolkien, music by Donald Swann, sung by William Elvin. “Intended for use on either stereo or monaural phonographs”.
From the back cover:
“ Years before the general reading public had heard his name, Professor J. R. R. Tolkien was well known to his colleagues in the field of Anglo-Saxon and Middle-English studies as a formidable scholar, and to Oxford undergraduates as an inspiring teacher. As a lecturer, he showed that it is possible (though, alas, not very common) to examine the philological details of a text without forgetting its poetic value.
“Nobody could have written The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings who was not both a philologist and a poet. For example, only a philologist, and an exceptional one at that, could have invented an 'imaginary' language for the Elves which has all the properties of a 'real' one. Only a scholar could have drawn upon so many sources for the ingredients of his 'brew', from Icelandic, Anglo-Saxon and Welsh myths down to, I suspect, Rider Haggard, though, as every gourmet knows, it is not the ingredients of a dish that matter, but what the chef does with them. And only an exceptional poetic imagination could have created a Secondary World, so complex, on so grand a scale, yet so completely credible in every detail. Among his many gifts, the three which astound me most are his gift for inventing Proper Names, his gift for describing landscape, and (how I envy him this) his gift for calligraphy.
“Some of the poems on this record are to be found in The Lord of the Rings, others in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil.
“Of the Hobbits' taste in verse, Professor Tolkien writes:
They are fond of strange words, and of rhyming and metrical tricks....
They are also, at least on the surface,
light-hearted and frivolous, though somelimes one may uneasily suspect that more is meant than meets the eye.
It is evident that their creator shares their taste. His metres are as exciting as they are various and, though most of his poems belong to the category of ‘Light Verse', there are a number, notably The Sea-Bell
-in my opinion his finest- which are anything but ‘light-hearted'. It should be remembered, also, that Hobbit poetry is not the only kind which he enjoys. On this record you will have the pleasure of hearing him recite a poem in Elvish….
-W. H. Auden
Aside from what was mentioned above, the record has no odor, no rips, scratches, marks, smears, scrapes, or chips. See pictures for additional condition details.
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