J. R. R. Tolkien

By any chance does this sound a little “hobbity” to you? It’s from the final movement, called “Hobbits,” of Johan de Meij’s Symphony No. 1, which was inspired by J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and which premiered in 1988, some 30 years after the Ring books had been published.

Today is the birthday of C. S. Lewis, and Kevin Shortsleeve has some thoughts about this famous British author.