The Road Goes Ever On (1975)

The Road Goes Ever On
Words by J.R.R. Tolkien
Music by Donald Swann
1975 First Paperback Edition, 2nd Printing
Ballantine Books
New York
ISBN: 0345247337
Trade paperback
xii, 68 pp.
Illustrated by J.R.R. Tolkien and Samuel Hanks Bryant
Hammond Page Ref.: pp. 316-317

Notes
Includes music for seven poems by J.R.R. Tolkien: The Road Goes Ever On, Upon the Hearth the Fire is Red, In the Willow-meads of Tasarinan, In Western Lands, Namárië, I Sit Beside the Fire and Errantry.

2nd Printing: August, 1975
3rd Printing: January, 1978

The copyright page for this edition lists a first printing published in October, 1969. This refers to the Ballantine 1968 Hardcover Edition, stating 1969 in error.*

RRP: $4.95.

*For more information see Douglas Anderson’s blog post ‘Ballantine’s Road Goes Ever On: Bibliographers Off by a Year!’.


The Road Goes Ever On (1968)