Songs inspired by The Lord of the Rings...

[Pyan]

Just a bit of fun!

11 Songs Inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings

There's a couple that won't play in the UK, presumably due to copyright issues in the original article, but they play on Youtube if you Google them.
My favourite has got to be no.10...

 

[Stephen Palmer]

Ludicrous. Absolutely ludicrous. & showing the pointlessness of most of these online lists (though not all).
The two greatest works inspired by LOTR are both missing, in their place a load of crap.
1. Stephen Oliver's peerless music for the 1981 BBC adaption of the novel.

2. Bo Hansson's peerless album dating from the 1970s.

 

[Pyan]

Ludicrous. Absolutely ludicrous. & showing the pointlessness of most of these online lists (though not all).

As I said, just a bit of fun...

 

[Stephen Palmer]

I can't help but be passionate about Stephen Oliver's gorgeous music!

 

[Danny McG]

As a side note, I remember back in the 1970s I bought a record by a group called Bilbo Baggins - they released a cover version of Hold me by P.J. Proby

 

[CupofJoe]

I can't help but be passionate about Stephen Oliver's gorgeous music!

And you get Oz Clarke singing as a bonus.. yes the wine guy.

 

[Stephen Palmer]

Indeed!

 

[M. Robert Gibson]

It would appear there is a lot of work inspired by the LOTR

Works inspired by Tolkien - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I am particularly intrigued by the work of John Sangster

 

[Guttersnipe]

"Ramble On," "The Battle of Evermore," and "Misty Mountain Hop," by Led Zeppelin; "Rivendell" by Rush.

 

[The Scribbling Man]

^^ I came to this thread just to make certain someone had acknowledged led zep.

 

[Pyan]

"Ramble On," "The Battle of Evermore," and "Misty Mountain Hop," by Led Zeppelin; "Rivendell" by Rush.

These were all mentioned in the link in the first post...

 

[Guttersnipe]

These were all mentioned in the link in the first post...

Oh. I didn't look.

 

[Pyan]

Oh. I didn't look.

 

[Toby Frost]

I'm still puzzled as to:

1) Why the "girl so fair" was in the darkest depths of Mordor and
2) Why/how Gollum crept up and sneaked away with her. Was he unusually charming and unfishlike?

 

[HareBrain]

I'm still puzzled as to:

1) Why the "girl so fair" was in the darkest depths of Mordor and
2) Why/how Gollum crept up and sneaked away with her. Was he unusually charming and unfishlike?

The answer to the mystery of any Led Zeppelin lyric can be found at the tail-end of a humongous doobie.

 

[Dave]

The answer was also in the first link, Robert Plant said "I just want to hold up my hand and say, ‘OK, I was 21 when I wrote that!'" and heavily under the influence.

 

[Venusian Broon]

I'm still puzzled as to:

1) Why the "girl so fair" was in the darkest depths of Mordor and
2) Why/how Gollum crept up and sneaked away with her. Was he unusually charming and unfishlike?

<Takes a big drag....>

Here's my justification. The 'girl' is the ring, the singer is Frodo. It was in the darkest depths of Mordor that Frodo finally realised he wanted to hold onto the ring - so fair, (so precious!). But then Gollum crept up and 'sneaked away with her'. i.e. bit it off his finger then fell into lava.

Now damaged forever by contact by the ring, Frodo must 'ramble on' forever as he has 'gotta keep searching for my baby', i.e. he has a ring-shaped hole in his life and he cannot settle down in the Shire anymore.

<Passes Camberwell carrot to next person>

 

[HareBrain]

The answer was also in the first link

Cripes, did no one read it??

 

[Pyan]

 

[Toby Frost]

<Passes Camberwell carrot to next person>

I call it the Camberwell Carrot, for it was forged in Camberwell, and it is in the form... of a carrot.