ON-LINE DATABASES
All About Jazz
All Music Guide
BookmarkedIt
Dark Lyrics
Discogs
Doom-metal.com
Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives
Gracenote
Jazz Discography
Metal Kingdom
MusicBrainz
New Gibraltar Ecyclopedia of Progressive Rock
Rate Your Music
ON-LINE STORES
Black Rills Records
Blackmetal.com
Flowinglass Music
Prikosnvénie
Red Stream Inc
Sentinel Steel
Sonic Age Records
Tolkien Shop
WEBSITES ABOUT TOLKIEN-INSPIRED MUSIC
About the Songs and Poems in the Lord of the Rings
Commentary by Gene Hargrove.
Beyond Bree
Good source of news on new Tolkien-inspired music.
Comisión de Música y Bailes de la STE
Special group within the Spanish Tolkien Society.
Development of Middle-earth Music
Essay by David J. Finnamore.
Fragments of Forgotten Sound
Music & Vision article by Gordon Rumson.
Led Zeppelin and JRR Tolkien Relations Page
Analysis of Tolkien's influence on Led Zeppelin lyrics.
Middle-earth Music
Downloadable MA Thesis by Tobias Escher.
Music in Middle-Earth
Essay by Gene Hargrove.
The Music of the Lord of the Rings Films
Author Doug Adams' blogspot for his forthcoming tome on the Howard Shore score.
Tolkieniana
Hosts Spotify page devoted to Tolkien-inspired music.
GENERAL TOLKIEN RESOURCES
Marquette University's J.R.R. Tolkien Collection
Research facility; includes a collection of Tolkien-inspired music.
Sound & Spirit: Lord of the Rings
Tolkien Collector
Wayne Hammond and Christina Scull's hard copy publication for collecting Tolkieniana.
Tolkien Collecting Resources
Includes a section on music.
Tolkien Enterprises
Licenses the names and likenesses of Tolkien's invented characters, places, things and events for use as trademarks and service marks in connection with various lines of merchandise.
Tolkien Society
Principal organization devoted to the appreciation of Tolkien's life and works.
Die TolkienWelt
German Tolkien Website with Hobbit news.
HARD COPY PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST TO TOLKIEN-INSPIRED MUSIC
Doug Adams, The Music of the Lord of the Rings Films: A Comprehensive Account of Howard Shore's Scores, Alfred, 2010.
Stephen Davis, Hammer of the Gods: The Led Zeppelin Saga, Ballantine, 1985.
K. J. Donnelly, "Musical Middle Earth," pp. 301-316 in Ernest Mathijs, ed. The Lord of the Rings: Popular Culture in Global Context. New York: Wallflower Press, 2006.
Tobias Escher, "I feel as if I was inside a song" The Presence of Music in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth and Songs and Poems set to Music, MA Thesis, 2011. [downloadable e-book]
John Sangster, Seeing the Rafters: The Life and Times of an Australian Jazz Musician, Penguin, 1988.
Howard Shore, Creating The Lord Of The Rings Symphony - A Composer's Journey Through Middle-earth (DVD 2004) New Line Cinema.
Donald Swann, Swann's Way: A Life In Song, London, Thames Publishing, 1997.
J.R.R. Tolkien & Donald Swann, The Road Goes Ever On: A Song Cycle, 1968.
COURTESY LINKS
Asociación Tolkien Argentina
Aussie Vitamin
Barrow Downs
Bollywood Hindi Songs
Burping Troll
De Los Anillos
DigBands.com
Dor-Lómin
Encyclopedia of Arda
Football Games
Heren Istarion
Herr der Ringe Film
JRR Tolkien Fan Art
J.R.R. Tolkien Resource Page
Lord of the Rings Fanatics Site
Lord of the Rings Fantasy World
Lord of the Rings Online
Metal Observer
Metalgoddess
New Music Label
New Tolkien Dictionary
Prashant Chopra
Rangame.com
Red Book of Westmarch
RingBearer.org
Ring Lord
Sir Linksalot
Smial de Minas Tirith, Sociedad Tolkien Chilena
Taruithorn
Tierra Media
Tolkien Online
Tolkien Library
Tolkien's Middle-earth battles
The Valaquenta