I'm a big fan of the YT channel Clamavi de Profundis, I've featured at least two of their songs here previously. However, I've recently discovered another channel that also does amazing interpretations of The Professor's material, the Tolkien Ensemble. While Clamavi did a bang-up job of arranging 'The Dragon is Withered' from the Hobbit (completely redeeming it in the process, IMHO), the Ensemble group is a lot more clasical in its sound, and their arrangement of Tom Bombadil's song is just sublime. They also did an exquisiste job on Galadriel's Song of Eldamar, which deserves an epic video all on its own. Their version of 'A Merry Old Inn' is really good, and Sam's Troll Rhyme is strangely close to the tune I imagined for it - which is wondrous strange.
Have a listen to their album 'An Evening in Rivendell', which has all those tracks, and more besides. Link
From their channel description:
The Tolkien Ensemble is a Danish ensemble which aims to create "the world's first complete musical interpretation of the poems and songs from The Lord of the Rings". They published four CDs from 1997 to 2005, in which all the poems and songs of The Lord of the Rings are set to music. The project was approved by both the Tolkien family and HarperCollins Publishers. Queen Margrethe II of Denmark gave permission to use her illustrations in the CD layout. Permanent members are Caspar Reiff and Peter Hall, Signe Asmussen, Øyvind Ougaard, Katja Nielsen, and Morten Ryelund Sørensen. The Ensemble has toured Europe in 2007, combining their own works with soundtrack pieces from Howard Shore's soundtrack to the film trilogy as well as live narration by Christopher Lee.
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