Sagan om ringen

by Bo Hansson

Sagan om ringen cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: December 1970
  • Label: Silence
  • Country: Sweden
  • Length: 47:32
  • Community rating: 3.76/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Inspired directly by J.R.R. Tolkien's 'The Lord of the Rings', the Swedish multi-instrumentalist recorded this deeply atmospheric, instrumental concept album largely in a makeshift island studio. The lush, organ-dominated orchestrations and pastoral psychedelia eventually garnered massive international attention, helping to popularize early progressive rock aesthetics across Europe.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, conceptual, forest, fantasy, atmospheric

Tracklist

  1. Leaving Shire (3:30)
  2. The Old Forest - Tom Bombadil (3:43)
  3. Fog on the Barrow-Downs (2:31)
  4. The Black Riders & Flight to the Ford (4:07)
  5. In the House of Elrond & the Ring Goes South (4:42)
  6. A Journey in the Dark (1:12)
  7. Lothl貌rien (4:00)
  8. Shadowfax (0:50)
  9. The Horns of Rohan & the Battle of the Pelennor Fields (4:00)
  10. Dreams in the House of Healing (1:58)
  11. Homeward Bound & the Scouring of the Shire (2:56)
  12. The Grey Havens (5:07)
  13. Early Scethces from Midg氓rd - Bonus (8:50)

Credits

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