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Rivendell (Sindarin: Imladris) is a valley in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth, representing both a homely place of sanctuary and a magical Elvish otherworld. It is an important location in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings , being the place where the quest to destroy the One Ring began.
Elrond, master of Rivendell, the Last Homely House East of the Sea. The Hobbit calls him an elf-friend rather than an elf, one "who had both elves and heroes of the North for ancestors." [T 9] The Elvenking, king of the Mirkwood Elves. He held the dwarves captive. They were eventually freed by Bilbo.
The first house of the Elves, the Vanyar, settles there as well. The mound of Ezellohar, on which stand the Two Trees , and Máhanaxar, the Ring of Doom, are outside Valmar. [ T 12 ] Farther east is the Calacirya, the only easy pass through the Pelóri, a huge mountain range fencing Valinor on three sides, created to keep Morgoth 's forces out.
[7] In The Lord of the Rings, Sam and Frodo experience a sizeable house, but again the outside, both the gardens and wild nature, is given prominence. The Hobbits walk "along several passages and down many steps and out into a high garden above the steep bank of the river. He found his friends sitting in a porch on the side of the house looking ...
In the narrative, the Hobbit Frodo Baggins, more or less healed after being stabbed with a Morgul-knife by a Black Rider, [T 3] sits listening to the Elvish music, falling into a trancelike state, until he hears "Song of Eärendil" which his cousin Bilbo sings, and supposedly composed, at Elrond's house, Rivendell: [T 2] [2]
A full song, Roads, was written for the film; it can be heard on the soundtrack and story LP. The same melody was used in Rankin/Bass's 1980 animated version of The Return of the King . [ 7 ] The song can be heard in the 1981 BBC radio version , sung by Bilbo ( John Le Mesurier ) to a tune by Stephen Oliver .
At Dawn in Rivendell is an album of twenty tracks by the Tolkien Ensemble.All have lyrics from J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings; some of the tracks are spoken word; the remainder are songs with musical settings composed by Peter Hall or Caspar Reiff, the Ensemble's founders.
Leaving Rivendell is the fourth album by the Danish group The Tolkien Ensemble, with Christopher Lee as additional vocalist. [1] It features songs composed to the lyrics found in The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien and forms the end part of a complete musical interpretation of all lyrics in the book.