I read it as a young teenager while listening repeatedly to one of my few cassette tapes - Beethoven's violin concerto on one side, 5th piano concerto on the ot

I read it as a young teenager while listening repeatedly to one of my few cassette tapes - Beethoven's violin concerto on one side, 5th piano concerto on the other. By the end of the book I was having trouble mentally distinguishing between book and music. The piano concerto in particular still calls to mind the true protagonists in all of Tolkien: mountains, rivers, lakes, forests and plains, rather than people.