The Middle-Earth Songbook
Since April 2023, Leslie has been transcribing and setting the songs in J.R.R. Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit, including transcriptions of those sung by the author himself. He is planning to eventually set all of the songs Tolkein wrote as per his descriptions of them, save the ones for which the author already provided music.
Current finished songs include:
“Sing hey! for the bath at close of day…” (The Fellowship of the Ring, Chapter 5)
“Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow...” (The Fellowship of the Ring, Chapter 6)
“Cold be hand and heart and bone…” (The Fellowship of the Ring, Chapter 8)