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1. Jessica Milliman
   Member

   I was thinking the other day about all the various rock music inspired by Tolikein. Everyone knows Led Zeppelin's "Ramble on", I'm sure. Don't know how many of you are aware of Marc Bolan and T.Rex and his early music. How about the album "Music inspired by LOTR" by Bo Hansson? I have it on record, it's instrumental with a lot of keyboards. I love music from the 60's and 70's and as we all know, LOTR was big, then. There's also a cool song by the band "Pearls before Swine" called "Ring thing". Any other suggested listening?

   Posted 5 months ago #
2. Nora Johansen
   Member

   flight of the choncords "frodo song" :D

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3. Lord Gamst
   Member

   Austrian ambient/metal-band called Summoning, all their albums are based on Tolkiens works.

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4. Stuart Carrier
   Member

   Ayup All...

   Led Zep:

   Misty Mountain Hop... ? The Battle of Evermore ? that's always felt 'Tolkien' to me.

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5. Julia Mellor
   Member

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5_r33sCLYY

   This for me is Eowyns song before she goes to battle after her heart has been broken by Aragorn.
   sung by Jessye Norman probably the finest soprano singer I have ever heard. It made me weep like an idiot. I feel quite ill now.

   Posted 5 months ago #
6. Jason Campbell
   Member

   Always suprised me noone has had a serious go at making a LotR's opera, the themes seem well suited to the opera treatment. And Tolkiens' lyrics are a hell of a lot better than a lot of what passes for lyrics in most operas.

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7. Jana N. Miller
   Member

   I can't stand opera. To me it is like fingernails down a chalkboard.

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8. Julia Mellor
   Member

   are you tone deaf?

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9. Jason Campbell
   Member

   Got to admit a particular likeing of Katheirne Jenkins at the moment. If for no other reason than she proves you can be a woman, sing opera and not look like you had to be put on the stage via a crane before the curtain went up.

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10. Julia Mellor
    Member

    flamin eck!

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11. Sladjana Andjelic
    Member

    Blind Guardian, album Nightfall in the Middle- Earth <3

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12. Todd VanDelinder
    Member

    As Sladjana said...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYqWJQCptV0&feature=related

    Blind Guardian did this based on the Silmarillian truly a great album

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13. Jessica Milliman
    Member

    There were also many sixties and seventies bands named after Middle Earth characters and things. There's a prog rock band called "Marillion" and a psychedelic band named "Gandalf". and one guy called "Gandalf the Grey" - http://www.discogs.com/Gandalf-The-Grey-The-Grey-Wizard-Am-I/release/1578126

    and of course there's Leonard Nimoy's "Ballad of Bilbo Baggins":
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC73PHdQX04

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14. Todd VanDelinder
    Member

    OMG not Leonard Nimoy AHHHHHHHH!!!! god I cringe and laugh at the same time LOL

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15. Lord Gamst
    Member

    It doesnt get more Tolkien'ish than this:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3GYlRBJ22Q

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16. Jessica Milliman
    Member

    Lord Gamst, I heard some of their songs. Some are cheesier than others, but that's bound to happen. I thought "flight of the nazgul" was pretty cool.

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17. Lord Gamst
    Member

    Guess its an aquired taste:)

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18. Kevin Dittmar
    Member

    One of the Zeppelin tunes wasn't mentioned. I saw an interview with Robert Plant one time.

    "There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold and she's buying a stairway to heaven."

    The number one rock song of all time is about Galadriel's desire to return to Valinor.

    And I thank everyone who posted links. The only one of those I had ever heard was Spock walking around Hobbiton. But I really liked all those other ones.

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19. Radu Ciobanu
    Member

    Hello,
    I started playing a game today and came across this magic song... Hope you like it :)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Znw_wi39nsQ

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20. Julia Mellor
    Member

    Radu I like this song its quite medieval sounding which is always good.

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21. Joel Becker
    Member

    I really liked that Blind Guardian song. I haven't heard of them before, so I'll have to check 'em out.

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22. Todd VanDelinder
    Member

    blind guardian are amazing very talented but that is just my style of music I have been and always will be a metalhead. ;)

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23. Jon Andrew Koriagin
    Member

    I keep getting hits on my web-site for people searching for "and silent all the stems there stood" and junk like that from that little fragment at the end of the Lay of Leithian. Apparently someone did a death-metal song based on that little slice of poetry. Great poem... but the song, you can hardly understand the lyrics. So funny...

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24. Kendalf
    Member

    Erm, I know it's not Tolkien and I know it's not inspired by Middle-earth but a few others have posted only-vaguely-related tunes above and I thought some of you may really like this...so I thought I'd risk it!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z9TdDCWN7g

    It's a cover of two of the main themes from "The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim", a videogame that I imagine a few of you may have heard of! And it's beautiful. Go on, it's only 2.02 long. Give it a try.

    PS If discussing, or even mentioning, videogames is out of bounds on this forum, apologies!

    Posted 4 months ago #
25. pettytyrant
    Member

    Well if discussing games is not allowed here I know a certain another forum where there is a whole section for it....
    That song certainly sounds better sung by her than it does in the actual game. Wonder if I can mod the game to have that version?

    Posted 4 months ago #
26. julia mellor
    Member

    ken we dont have any rules as such here its pretty laid back, its a kind of self governed thing mostly here, you know common sense stuff like no swearing if possible or abuse, apart from that we can talk about anything Tolkien or inspired by Tolkien including that great song you posted. Over at Forumshire its more varied discussions, from the serious to the silly, you can decide which. I wouldnt worry about etiquette too much here though, just post what you like really.

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27. Kendalf
    Member

    @pettytyrant
    Yep, I've heard there is indeed a mod (which appeared less than 24 hours after she'd posted her video!) but, as I'm playing on the 360, I've absolutely no idea where to look for it or how to install it. Sorry.

    @Julia
    Thanks for the clarification. And as for the song, glad you liked it, too.

    Posted 4 months ago #
28. Todd VanDelinder
    Member

    Kendalf, were a pretty easy going bunch around here as Julia said, just stay on HER good side though LOL

    Posted 4 months ago #
29. Turin Turambar
    Member

    At least it looks like SOME of Tolkien's poetry is going to be used in The Hobbit. Whilst LOTR was great to watch and had some moments of real magic, I listened in vain for 'A Elbereth Gilthoniel', Gimli didn't sing 'The world was young, the mountains green' in Moria and no song of the maiden Nimrodel from Legolas in Lothlorien. I could go on. We had to wait for the Extended Version for a small part of 'Seek for the Sword that was Broken', one of the most stirring verses in LOTR.

    Thorin's song gave me goosebumps, but I notice that PJ has seen fit to mess with that and have only two lines of the opening stanza. I just hope he has them sing the dwarf song in 'Queer Lodgings'...

    'The wind was on the withered heath,
    but in the forest stirred no leaf;
    there shadows lay by night and day,
    and dark things silent crept beneath...'

    Trouble is, as I read this, the words seem to fit the tune in the trailer!

    Posted 4 months ago #
30. julia mellor
    Member

    Well to be fair we probably didnt hear the full version on the trailer, I think in LOTR there too many time restraints to have a lot of long songs, but in the Hobbit the storyline is simpler so we may get more of those wonderful songs, the song of Thorin hasnt left my mind since I first heard it, i love it.

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