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- From: weverett@jarthur.claremont.edu (William M. Everett)
- Subject: Re: Music based on the ring
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.035348.20947@muddcs.claremont.edu>
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- Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 03:53:48 GMT
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- In article <C17Fx3.781@panix.com> os2man@panix.com (Larry Salomon Jr.) writes:
- >In <C15zDr.E6n@news.udel.edu> timster@brahms.udel.edu (Timothy P Brennan) writes:
- >
- >>I don't if anyone has mentioned this yet, but there are a few Tolkien
- >>references in some Led Zeppelin songs.
- >
- >>Misty Mountain Hop (title only as far as I know)
- >>Ramble On ("In the darkest depths of Mordor I met a girl so fair
- >> But Gollum and the evil one crept up and slipped away with her")
- >>Battle of Evermore ("... The Ringwraiths ride in black...")
- >
- >>Anybody know of anymore Tolkien references by Led Zeppelin?
- >
- >No, but I would not forget "Rivendell" by RUSH (on "Fly By Night", I
- >believe), which is an entire song dedicated to the Elven haven in the
- >Misty Mountains.
- >
- >Cheers,
- >Q
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- Also Battle of Evermore ("The dark lord rides in force tonight")
- Which is very suggestive, as well as the title and many other lines in the
- song.
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