The Road Goes Ever on
by Donald Swann
The Road Goes Ever On is Donald Swann's song cycle setting poems from Tolkien's Middle-earth writings, published as sheet music by Houghton Mifflin in Boston on 31 October 1967 and by George Allen & Unwin in the UK in March 1968. Tolkien supplied notes on the Elvish poems.
- Editions tracked
- 2
- First edition
- Houghton Mifflin, 1967
- First published
- Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1967
- First UK edition
- George Allen & Unwin, 1968
The first edition of The Road Goes Ever on by Donald Swann was published in Boston by Houghton Mifflin in 1967. We track 2 editions.
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Setting and characters
- Set in
- Middle-earth
- Genre
- poetry
Read next
- Comes after
- The Tolkien Reader
- Followed by
- Smith of Wootton Major
In print
- Editions recorded
- 11 on Open Library, 5 in English
- Wikipedia
- Articles in 11 languages
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Who published the first edition of The Road Goes Ever on?
The first edition of The Road Goes Ever on by Donald Swann was published in Boston by Houghton Mifflin in 1967.
How many editions of The Road Goes Ever on are there?
We track 2 editions of The Road Goes Ever on, including 1 first edition. Each has its own page with how to identify it.
What should I read after The Road Goes Ever on?
In order, it follows The Tolkien Reader and it is followed by Smith of Wootton Major, according to Wikidata.
Where these facts come from
- The Road Goes Ever On, Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
- The road goes ever on: a song cycle, Open Library (openlibrary.org)
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