Top Ten Tolkien Tunes - and Rush's in it!!!

[H. P. L.]

http://metalhammer.teamrock.com/features/2014-09-22/top-ten-tolkien-tunes

[Ancient Ways]

Anyone want to post the list? I'm not signing up to read it.

[H. P. L.]

Anyone want to post the list? I'm not signing up to read it.

Sorry, I thought it was public view.

Here goes:

 

 

Rush – Rivendell

From the 1975 album Fly By Night the title refers to the home of the Elves, which was impregnable even to Sauron. Neil Peart is known to be a Tolkien enthusiast.

 

 

Amon Amarth – Once Sent From The Golden Hall

The Swedish band's 1998 debut album has references to Tolkien, and their name was taken from the Mount Doom when Sauron forged The One Ring.

 

 

Led Zeppelin – Ramble On

This is from 1969's Led Zeppelin II. It is heavily influenced by The Lord Of The Rings, referring to Gollum and Mordor. And the opening line paraphrases the Tolkien poem Namarie. Other Zeppelin songs are also inspired by Tolkien, these include The Battle Of Evermore, Misty Mountain Hop and Stairway To Heaven.

 

 

Megadeth – This Day We Fight!

From the 2009 album Endgame, the title of the song is a direct quote from Aragorn's speech, just prior to the final battle at the conclusion of Return Of The King.

 

 

Black Sabbath – The Wizard

From the band's eponymous 1970 debut album, this was inspired by Gandalf. Geezer Butler says he was reading The Lord Of The Rings at the time he wrote the lyrics.

 

 

Blind Guardian – Nightfall In Middle-Earth

The band's 1998 album is a conceptual piece inspired by the Silmarillion. There are also other songs from the German power metallers which owe their origins to Tolkien. Such as Lord Of The Rings, The Bard's Song (In The Forest) and The Bard's Song (The Hobbit).

 

 

Orange Goblin – Saruman's Wish

This comes from their 1997 debut album Frequencies From Planet Ten. This is about the character of Saruman from The Lord Of The Rings. The album also has Lothlorien, based on the forest of elves which is significant in the same book.

 

 

Sabaton – Shadows

From the band's 2007 album Metalizer, this is about the Nazgul, who are first mentioned in Lord Of The Rings and are part of Middle Earth folklore.

 

 

Nightwish – Elvenpath

This is on their 1997 debut album Angels Fall First, and it has a sample from Lord Of The Rings. Wishmaster, from the same album, also references Tolkien.

 

 

Summoning – Lugburz

The 1995 debut album from the Danish metalheads not only deals lyrically with Tolkien subjects, but the title even comes from The Lord Of The Rings. It's the tower of Barad-dur.

 

 

BONUS: Leonard Nimoy – The Ballad Of Bilbo Baggins

Finally, a little light relief. This 1968 song is so bad, it stinks. There again, it's so abysmal it's very funny.

[Geddy's Soul Patch]

Should have had The Necromancer instead of Rivendell

[savagegrace26]

The Necromancer

 

But most outsiders wouldn't realize that it's influenced by Tolkien because it doesn't have blatant keywords like "Rivendell" in it.

[Narps]

Ramble On given those choices. I only know three of them.....

[furie]

The Battle Of Evermore is way better than Ramble on from a Tolkien standpoint.

[Narps]

The Battle Of Evermore is way better than Ramble on from a Tolkien standpoint.

Where is the Battle Of Evermore in the choices? If it were I would choose it too even over Ramble On.....

[goose]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGF5ROpjRAU

 

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[savagegrace26]

Were would Rush songs rank on best Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ayn Rand, Mark Twain, Richard Foster, John Dos Passos, Friedrich Wilhem Nietzsche, Ernest Hemingway, T.S. Eliot. William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, and Voltaire lists?