Led Zeppelin / LOTR

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greenfreak

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I'm reading the three books of the LOTR (I had only read the Hobbit before) and I'm really enjoying it...

Anyway, I'm in the car the other day listening to the radio and Led Zeppelin's "Ramble On" comes on. I thought for sure I heard two references to LOTR but thought I was just hearing things.

Just looked up the lyrics, I wasn't hearing things:

Led Zeppelin - Ramble On lyrics

Leaves are falling all around, It's time I was on my way.
Thanks to you, I'm much obliged for such a pleasant stay.
But now it's time for me to go. The autumn moon lights my way.
For now I smell the rain, and with it pain, and it's headed my way.
Sometimes I grow so tired, but I know I've got one thing I got to do...

[Chorus]
Ramble On, And now's the time, the time is now, to sing my song.
I'm goin' 'round the world, I got to find my girl, on my way.
I've been this way ten years to the day, Ramble On,
Gotta find the queen of all my dreams.

Got no time to for spreadin' roots, The time has come to be gone.
And to' our health we drank a thousand times, it's time to Ramble On.

[Chorus]

Mine's a tale that can't be told, my freedom I hold dear.
How years ago in days of old, when magic filled the air.
T'was 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, her, her....yeah.

[Chorus]

Gonna ramble on, sing my song. Gotta keep-a-searchin' for my baby...
Gonna work my way, round the world. I can't stop this feelin' in my heart
Gotta keep searchin' for my baby. I can't find my bluebird!
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Really, except for the fact that he's searching for 'his girl', the whole thing can be linked to when Frodo left the Shire. He did leave in autumn and in the book, it's filled with Hobbit songs (even though we didn't see much singing in the movie) and those Hobbits really like their food and drink. :)

Pretty cool, I never got those references when I didn't know much of LOTR. :)
 
I don't want to pee on your parade, but when I was a kid, all of us Zep fans new about that, even the ones who weren't into LOTR. :)

Of course I realize we are discussing the dim reaches of antiquity.
 
Go through all of their lyrics, They have lots of references to fantasy & mysticism.
 
I read the books in this order: Silmarillion, Hobbit, LOTR

From all those books i enjoyed the Return of the King the most.

Once you finish it reading them, make sure to read The Silmarillion, you'll understand better a lot of things mentioned there.
 
I borrowed from a friend an edition that contains the 3 books in one volume in March I'm just finishing reading it by the second time. But I plan to read The Hobbit next and only then The Silmarillion. The best for last :D
From the 3 my preferred one was Fellowship... and Elrond's Council(rt?) is the best chapter
 
Noite, do you read the books in english or you get translations to Portuguese?
 
that's why i don't even try talking about places and other stuff ;)

i can't believe you haven't read the Silmarillion, i'm reading the return of the shadow right now, and i'll read the unfinished tales after that one.
 
it's a compilation of draft writings before LOTR, some stuff that didn't appear in the books, the corrections and in general how it evolved until the final work was done.
 
Those are a group of 4, named The History of the Lord of the Rings:

- Return of the shadow (regreso de la sombra)
- The betrayal of Isengard (la traición de Isengard)
- The war of the ring (la guerra del anillo)
- The end of 3rd age (final de la 3ra edad)

There's also another series of books called The History of Middle Earth, but i haven't got those yet :D
 
i read the silmarillion a few years ago and found it damn hard - its like a history book but written quite abstractly.
 
The Valenqueta and Ainundalae are hard to read, too much names, but when the quenta silmarillion starts it gets easier.

I liked particullary the story of Berem and Lúthien, and the story of Numenor.
 
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