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{{Infobox album
| name       = An Evening in Rivendell
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[The Tolkien Ensemble]]
| cover      = An_evening_in_rivendell_albumcover.jpg
| released   = 30 September 1997
| recorded   = 1997
| studio     = Focus Recording, Copenhagen, Denmark
| genre      = [[Classical music|Classical]]
| length     = 67:49
| label      = Classico
| producer   = Morten Ryelund Sørensen
| prev_title =
| prev_year  =
| next_title = [[A Night in Rivendell]]
| next_year  = 1999
}}
'''''An Evening in Rivendell''''' is the first album by the Danish group [[The Tolkien Ensemble]]. It features songs composed to the lyrics found in [[J. R. R. Tolkien]]'s ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' and forms the first part of what was to become a complete musical interpretation of all lyrics in the book.

== Track listing ==
{{tracklist
| title1        = [[Rhyme of the Rings|Verse of the Rings]]
| writer1       = Caspar Reiff
| length1       = 4:06
| title2        = [[The Road Goes Ever On (song)|The Old Walking Song]], The Road...
| writer2       = Caspar Reiff
| length2       = 4:58
| title3        = Tom Bombadil's Song, Hey dol! Merry dol!
| writer3       = Peter Hall
| length3       = 5:40
| title4        = [[The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late|There is an inn, a merry old inn...]]
| writer4       = Caspar Reiff and Peter Hall
| length4       = 4:58
| title5        = Song of Beren and Lúthien
| writer5       = Caspar Reiff
| length5       = 7:59
| title6        = Galadriel's Song of Eldamar, I sang of leaves
| writer6       = Caspar Reiff
| length6       = 6:23
| title7        = [[A Elbereth Gilthoniel|Elven Hymn to Elbereth Gilthoniel]], Snow-white! Snow-white!
| writer7       = Caspar Reiff
| length7       = 5:31
| title8        = The Ent and the Ent-wife
| writer8       = Caspar Reiff
| length8       = 7:45
| title9        = Sam's Rhyme of the Troll
| writer9       = Peter Hall
| length9       = 5:19
| title10       = [[Namárië|Galadriel's Song of Eldamar]], Ai! Laurië lantar...
| writer10      = Caspar Reiff
| length10      = 6:10
| title11       = Sam's Song in the Orc-tower
| writer11      = Caspar Reiff and Peter Hall
| length11      = 5:20
| title12       = The Old Walking Song, The Road...,Reprise
| writer12      = Caspar Reiff
| length12      = 2:41
}}

== Reception ==

Af Søren Aabyen, reviewing the album for the [[Tolkien fandom#Denmark|Danish Tolkien Association]], found that rarely had any music appealed to him as much. He was delighted by the [[mezzo-soprano]] [[Signe Asmussen]]'s mellow rendering of "[[Namárië|Galadriel's Song of Eldamar]]". He enjoyed the playful hobbit-song "[[The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late|There is an Inn, a merry old Inn]]", and Caspar Reiff's suitably melancholy guitar for "[[The Old Walking Song]]" alongside the rich baritone voice of Mads Thiemann and the lyrical violin of Mette Tjærby. Aabyen noted also the pleasure of finding [[Margrethe II of Denmark|Queen Margaret of Denmark]]'s illustrations in the accompanying booklet.<ref>{{cite web |last=Aabyen |first=Af Søren |title=Anmeldelser {{!}} Musik: An evening in Rivendell |url=http://www.imladris.dk/?id=11&show=35 |publisher= Imladris – Danmarks Tolkien Forening |language=Danish |date=18 May 1998}}</ref> Anthony Burdge and Jessica Burke, in ''[[The J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia]]'', note that the album was the first of four by the ensemble, complete with the queen's illustrations "greatly admired by Tolkien."<ref name="Drout2006">{{cite encyclopedia |last1=Burdge |first1=Anthony |last2=Burke |first2=Jessica |chapter=Popular Music |editor-last=Drout |editor-first=Michael D.C. |title=[[J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia]] |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=by0dzzQ6m8sC&pg=PA539 |year=2013 |orig-year=2006 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-415-86511-1 |page=539}}</ref>

The Tolkien Ensemble called their Danish reviews "outstanding", noting that in other countries ''Tolkien Online'' had described it as "the most beautiful presentation of the poems of ''The Lord of the Rings''", while ''Classic CD'' named it "Highly persuasive and splendidly performed".<ref>{{cite web |last=Reiff |first=Caspar |title=The Story of the Tolkien Ensemble |url=http://www.tolkien-ensemble.net/ensemble/ensemble2_en.html |website=[[The Tolkien Ensemble]] |accessdate=13 January 2020}}</ref>

==Credits==

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* Peter Hall – vocal, guitar, harmonica, penny-whistle, [[Frodo Baggins|Frodo]], [[Samwise Gamgee|Sam]] and [[Tom Bombadil]]
* {{ill|Caspar Reiff|es}} – guitar
* Morten Ryelund Sørensen – violin
* {{ill|Øyvind Ougaard|da}} – Accordion
* Morten Ernst Lassen – [[Aragorn]]
* [[Signe Asmussen]] – [[Galadriel]] and Ent-wife
* Mads Thiemann – [[Bilbo Baggins|Bilbo]] and [[Ent]]
* Ole Jegindø Norup – [[Gildor]]
* Melene Nordtorp – [[Goldberry]]
* Torben H. S. Svendsen – double-bass
* Peter Halaburt – oboe
* Jesper Korneliussen – Vibraphone, Marimba, bells and chimes
* Mette Tjærby – violin
* Anne Eltard – folk-violin
* Tom McEwan – percussion, spoons and dishes
* Maria Boelskov – harp
* Michael Friis – bass
* Berit Johanson – piano
* Nina Reintoft – cello
* The Commotio quartet: Morten Ryelund Sørensen, Mette Tjærby, Jørgen Eyvind Hansen and Nina Reintoft
* Male choir: Steffen Bruun, Johnny Johansen, Anders Holte, Björn Tengstrand, Frank Sylvan, Morten Clausen, Jacob Ægidius, Morten Ryelund Sørensen, Torben Eskildsen and Caspar Reiff
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==Production==

* Musical Direction: Morten Ryelund Sørensen
* Production: Caspar Reiff, Peter Hall and Morten Ryelund Sørensen
* Engineering: Hans Nielsen and Saqib
* Cover Illustration: [[Margrethe II of Denmark|Queen Margrethe II of Denmark]]
* Cover Design: Dan Eggers and Connie B. Berentzen

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