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Review title: Musicians Miss their Mark
Product review: I a an obsessive Tolkien fan. Even so, I found the music of the Tolkien Ensemble to be pretentious and the melodies wandering and unfocussed.I was disappointed.There is no "feel" for the people, i.e., Elves, Dwarves, Men, or Hobbits, to whom the music is ascribed. There are too many basses and baritones, insufficient sopranos, too many accidentals, and no harps (!). I actually winced at one note in the duet between the Ent and the Entwife which is written to be flatted, why, I cannot fathom. High notes emphasize small words - of, on - and more important words are hurried together because the composer seems not to have taken the natural rythms of Tolkien's poetry into account. A much better effort is Broceliande's "The Starlit Jewel" with music written by Marion Zimmer Bradley and others.
