The Lord of the Rings (Music from the BBC Radio Dramatisation) – Stephen Oliver, 1981

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The Lord of the Rings (Music from the BBC Radio Dramatisation)
Stephen Oliver, 1981

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|Music by: Stephen Oliver|Year: 1981|Tracks: 18|Format: 320k|

A Elbereth Gilthoniel
silivren penna m�riel
o menel aglar elenath!
Na-chaered palan-d�riel
o galadhremmin ennorath,
Fanuilos, le linnathon
nef aear, s� nef aearon!

A Elbereth Gilthoniel
o menel palan-diriel,
le nallon s� di’nguruthos!
A tiro nin, Fanuilos!

TRACKLIST

01. The Lord Of The Rings (Main Theme)
02. O Elbereth Gilthoniel
03. The Road Goes Ever On
04. In Western Lands Beneath The Sun
05. Seek For The Sword That Was Broken
06. Shadowfax
07. O Lorien
08. Forth Rode The King
09. The March Of The Ents
10. The Battle Of Pelennor Fields
11. Lament For The Fallen
12. Gil-Galad Was An Elven King
13. In Caras Galadhon
14. The Tree-Lords
15. Gwaihir’s Song
16. Long Live The Halflings
17. The Healing Of The Shire
18. Bilbo’s Last Song

This is the soundtrack album from the 1981 BBC Radio Dramatisation of Tolkien’s masterwork The Lord of the Rings. I grew up with the dramatisation, which my mother had recorded onto cassette tapes off the radio. When CD’s became a thing, my uncle burnt us a copy, and as my mother read us the books, we would then listen to the corresponding episode of the dramatisation. We also regularly listened to the vinyl soundtrack album that my mother had bought. The music, composed and conducted by English composer Stephen Oliver, is indescribably fitting, appropriately sinister, and heartbreaking beautiful, as well as being quintessentially English – perfect for Middle Earth.

The music here was specially expanded, performed, and re-recorded for the soundtrack album. Unfortunately, the original soundtrack tapes were lost, and so there is very little, if any, hope of ever having any more of the music, as there is a fair amount of unreleased cues in the dramatisation. However, this album does give a very well-rounded taste of the score and is an absolute treasure. This was ripped from my personal soundtrack CD that came with a new CD set of the dramatisation.

If you are not familiar with this, but are a fan of Tolkien, your collection is not complete without this. I highly recommend checking out the dramatisation, at least on YouTube. The cast includes Ian Holm as Frodo, John Le Mesurier as Bilbo, Peter Woodthorpe as Gollum, Sir Michael Horden as Gandalf, Bill Nighy as Sam, and Michael Graham Cox as Boromir, amongst many others. Fans of Ralph Bakshi’s 1978 animation will recognise the voices of Gollum and Boromir, who reprised their roles for the BBC radio dramatisation.

For a taste of the dramatisation, click here to listen. (https://youtu.be/UF_ZgQREQrU)

For a taste of the music, listen to the opening of the first episode. Or listen to the first track of the soundtrack album here. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82Y8HbfG5MU)
One of my favourites is Gil-Galad. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sfhAUrcGAc&list=PL-7u3XQNrs5KSyQPkyHjcTV2BQr1EtCM_&t=0s&index=7)

I honestly cannot recommend it enough.

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Please say thanks, and if you do appreciate this, a rep wouldn’t go amiss either.

The cover shown above is a photograph of the original vinyl soundtrack album front. I have enhanced it and cleaned it up, so that it looks a lot better, particularly in iTunes. However, my enhanced version is not in the archive. But no need to panic – just click the cover above and save the full resolution.

Sulley

Neat! Thanks!

Many thanks, Sulley! 😀

Glad some folks here are appreciating it. Let me know what you think! 🙂

Many many thanks.
You are an absolute star!
I can not say how much this means to me – I love the series but can now put the music tracks on my mp3 player on the train and dream!

Thank you.

Many many thanks.
You are an absolute star!
I can not say how much this means to me – I love the series but can now put the music tracks on my mp3 player on the train and dream!

It’s my pleasure to get this incredible music out there, and to have made you so happy has made me happy. I was going to share this on the Shrine one day anyway, but you kicked my butt into action. Well done. 😉

Cool

Cool

No thanks?

No thanks?

I didn’t download it but thanks for the efforts

I didn’t download it but thanks for the efforts

You’re welcome, I guess. Feel free to at least listen to the samples on YouTube I linked to. 🙂

Thanks Man!!!

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Is anyone here actually familiar with this album/dramatisation at all (apart from enchanter, obviously)?

I Haven’t Downloaded LOL I Just Thanks 😀

I Haven’t Downloaded LOL I Just Thanks 😀

Well, that’s very kind of you. I’d encourage you to have a quick listen to the first couple of minutes of the dramatisation I linked to on YouTube at the top. See if you like it. 🙂

I guess how much you’ll like it depends on how familiar you are with LOTR in the first place.

Maybe, Just Coz Its You 😀

Thanks for the share, will explore this.

Is anyone here actually familiar with this album/dramatisation at all (apart from enchanter, obviously)?
Yes, I’ve listened to it twice, and plan to do so a third time.

Here’s something odd. I ripped these tracks from Youtube a few months ago. But this version has an extra track. I’m going to look through and see what I’m missing. Thanks!

Holy shit! I honestly never thought I would find this. Thank you so much!

Thank you share!

Cool, mang!

Thank You

This takes me back!!! Thanks for the upload!!

This takes me back!!! Thanks for the upload!!

It does the same to me every time. Glad you appreciate it. 🙂

Holy shit! I honestly never thought I would find this. Thank you so much!

Glad to have proved you wrong, old boy. 😉

I heard it and the entire drama many years ago. The music is indeed wonderful and perfectly befitting the radio-play.

Thanks!!

Thanks 🙂

Thanks!

Thanks.

Thank you very much.

Many thanks! 🙂

Thanks a lot!! Most appreciated. 🙂

I’m surprised how popular this is! Surprised and pleased. 🙂

You’re all most welcome. Enjoy!

Thank you

First post updated with a restored version of the vinyl LP cover. I messed around with the saturation, brightness, and contrast. And cleaned it up a bit. It now looks a lot better in iTunes:

Thank you very much! After all these years, I still haven’t heard the full BBC radio drama, but the music is indeed superb. Thank you for putting this entire production back on my radar.

Thank you very much! After all these years, I still haven’t heard the full BBC radio drama, but the music is indeed superb. Thank you for putting this entire production back on my radar.

You’re very welcome. You definitely need to listen to the whole thing. 🙂

Thanks 😀

You’re welcome. 🙂

For me its the best musical interpretation of the Ring-Saga.

MUCH better and more emotional than the movie-scores of Shore (for my taste).

Thanks!!

Thanks!

Talk about a bump! You’re most welcome. Glad you and so many others appreciated this. Enjoy! 🙂

Does anyone know if the music recordings of The Hobbit radio drama (with Nicole Williamson narrating) has ever been released?

Does anyone know if the music recordings of The Hobbit radio drama (with Nicole Williamson narrating) has ever been released?

You mean the BBC Radio 4 one? I think there were some music tracks at the end of the last cassette tape…

Audio clips from LADY JANE brought me here…

Thank you very much for the shire…I mean…the share !

🙂

Amazing

Audio clips from LADY JANE brought me here…

Thank you very much for the shire…I mean…the share !

🙂

You’re most welcome! Enjoy.

What do you mean, audio clips from Lady Jane?

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Thank you.

thanks

What do you mean, audio clips from Lady Jane?

RambaZamba is your friend ! 😉

Stephen Oliver’s LADY JANE has been released on CD.

http://www.quartetrecords.com/lady-jane.html

Thanks! I’ll give it a listen!

Stephen Oliver’s LADY JANE has been released on CD.

http://www.quartetrecords.com/lady-jane.html

Very nice! I’m not familiar, but that sounds fantastic!

grateful thanks for sharing my friend!!!

Thanks for sharing this!

This is awesome. Thanks!

Thank you kindly.

Thank you very much matey.

Cheers,

j

Thank you for this. I really want to hear it.

thanks

Thank you for this. I really want to hear it.

You are most welcome! Are you familiar at all with the radio drama?

Much appreciated! Many thanks! Didn’t know the existance of it…

Truly a lovely share. Many Thanks for this!

Thank you very much!

Nice. Always appreciate more Tolkienverse.

Thanks for the share. Appreciate your work. Rep added

Thank you.

https://archive.org/details/LordOfTheRings_201706
The full drama if anyone is interested

WONDERFUL !!! 🙂 🙂 🙂
Billions of thanks for this upload !

wow a thousand thanks (and rep points) for this, that’s the best share of the month!!

Thank you so much for this wonderful share

Interesting. Thanks!

You’re all most welcome, I’m just so glad to see that this is still making so many people happy!

Thank you so much for this! It is an absolute delight.