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The Road Goes Ever On (song)
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"The Road Goes Ever On" is a title that encompasses several walking songs that J. R. R. Tolkien wrote for his Middle-earth legendarium. Within the stories, the original song was composed by Bilbo Bagg
Illustration of the road by Kay Nielsen for the 1914 fairy tale East of the Sun and West of the Moon, whose title Tolkien uses in one of his walking songs for Aman, the desired other world.
Illustration of the road by Kay Nielsen for the 1914 fairy tale East of the Sun and West of the Moon, whose title Tolkien uses in one of his walking s
"The door where it began": the house of Bilbo and later Frodo Baggins at Bag End, Hobbiton, as created for Peter Jackson's Middle-earth films
"The door where it began": the house of Bilbo and later Frodo Baggins at Bag End, Hobbiton, as created for Peter Jackson's Middle-earth films
The Danish Tolkien Ensemble has set all the versions of "The Road Goes Ever On" to music.
The Danish Tolkien Ensemble has set all the versions of "The Road Goes Ever On" to music.
East of the Sun and West of the Moon
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"East of the Sun and West of the Moon" is a Norwegian fairy-tale. It was collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe, who compiled it from variants they recorded in the regions of Ringerike
The Road Goes Ever On (song)
…Sun. The final line of the verse is a variant on the phrase "East of the Sun and West of the Moon", which is used in fairy-stories like the Norwegian tale of that name for another world that is fantastically difficult to reach – in this case Aman, which can only be reached by the Old Straight Road, accessible only to…
By candlelight, the heroine discovers the identity of her sleeping husband.
By candlelight, the heroine discovers the identity of her sleeping husband.
The white bear carries his intended on his back. Illustration from The Blue Fairy Book by Henry Justice Ford.
The white bear carries his intended on his back. Illustration from The Blue Fairy Book by Henry Justice Ford.
The North Wind carries the maiden across the stormy sea. Illustration from The Blue Fairy Book by Henry Justice Ford.
The North Wind carries the maiden across the stormy sea. Illustration from The Blue Fairy Book by Henry Justice Ford.