(©Carey Blyton 1967)</p>

1. "Once upon a time...." (muted horn call)... there lived a cheerful hobbit with a taste for adventure, namely...<br>
2. "Bilbo Baggins... of Bag-End, Under-Hill" (woodwind with a lively theme developed from the introductory horn call and leading to a pause-bar, where a cymbal-clash) announces the appearance of friendly...<br>
3. "Gandalf the Wizard" (bassoon and muted trumpet chords above slow-moving trombone). These two set out one day with...<br>
4. "Thorin Oakenshield, Chief of the Dwarfs" (stately chord-progression) to recover Thorin's lost treasure. Accompanying them on the long and hazardous quest are...<br>
5. "The other twelve dwarfs" (brisk flute tetrachords against slow-moving chords from clarinets). From the shady, slimy...<br>
6. "Gollum" (oboe and bassoon playing "nastily"), Bilbo had obtained...<br>
7. "The Magic Ring" (trumpets and cymbals) which was to be of invaluable assistance in the search for...<br>
8. "Thorin's Treasure" (slow and majestic music, mainly for horns, trumpet and trombone). The treasure had been captured from Thror, Thorin's grandfather, by...<br>
9. "Smaug the Dragon" (fierce tutti chords and trombone glissandi) who still stands guard over it, until one, Bard of Esgaroth shoots...<br>
10. "The Black Arrow" which strikes the dragon and brings about...<br>
11. "The death of Smaug" (woodwind trills, muted trombone glissandi and pedal roll)...<br>
12. "The dwarfs regain Thorin's treasure" (combination of Nos. 5 and 8).<br>
13. "The Home-Coming" (restatement of Bilbo's music (No. 2), but with a difference).</p>

<b><u>Comments</b></u><br>
On 16 August, 1964, Tolkien wrote to Carey Blyton: "You certainly have my permission to compose any work that you wished based on <i>The Hobbit</i>....As an author I am honoured to hear that I have inspired a composer. I have long hoped to do so, and hoped also that I might perhaps find the result intelligible to me, or feel that it was akin to my own inspiration - as much as are, say, some (but not all) of Pauline Baynes' illustrations.... (Letters.350)"</p>