That Professor's Poems Got Musicalized, and Other Scandals

This little squib from the February 1968 English Journal covers the release of The Road Goes Ever On, a song cycle of Tolkien's poems set to music by Donald Swann.  I've heard it aplenty. Some songs are jolly, some ruminative, all fairly direct as you assume Hobbit songs might be.

These two images are from the Letters page of the same issue, concerning an article called "Frodo Lives!" by William Taylor. You can read that article here.  Decide for yourself if Taylor was irreverent to the cult of Tolkien.

See you Monday!