# Lord Of The Rings/Led Zeppelin **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 14, 2003, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lord-of-the-rings-led-zeppelin/168754 "2003-04-14T23:17:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![msaffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ad7895/32.png) [@msaffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msaffer)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lord-of-the-rings-led-zeppelin/168754/1 "2003-04-14T23:17:23Z")
I have long been a fan of both Tolkien’s works as well as Zeppelin’s music. I see the similarites between the two, as most fans do. My question is if anyone knows of any other popular artists who use similar lyrical references to authors such as Tolkien or C.S. Lewis? Perhaps even Biblical references such as Prince’s “Seven”. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lord-of-the-rings-led-zeppelin/168754/2 "2003-04-15T00:12:00Z")
I’m going to move this to Cafe Society. You’ll probably get better answers over there. ---
**Author:** ![CastleAnthrax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@CastleAnthrax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CastleAnthrax)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lord-of-the-rings-led-zeppelin/168754/3 "2003-04-15T00:13:48Z")
The Waterboys, “Church not made by hands” opening line: ‘Bye-bye Shadowlands, the term is over, and all the holidays have begun’ A paraphrase of bits of C.S. Lewis’ The Last Battle just after they’ve gone to the real Narnia. Hennadancer ---
**Author:** ![dead0man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/edb3f5/32.png) [@dead0man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dead0man)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lord-of-the-rings-led-zeppelin/168754/4 "2003-04-15T01:48:54Z")
Anthrax’s “Among the Living” is about Randall Flagg from “The Stand” by S.King of course. [lyrics](http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/anthrax/amongtheliving.html#1) “Disease, Disease Spreading the disease With some help from Captain Trips” and “I am the walkin’ dude I can see all the world” ---
**Author:** ![guitarguy471](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@guitarguy471](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guitarguy471)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lord-of-the-rings-led-zeppelin/168754/5 "2003-04-15T02:35:17Z")
Blind Guardian has some good tolkien songs. They have a whole cd called “Nightfall in Middle Earth”. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lord-of-the-rings-led-zeppelin/168754/6 "2003-04-15T03:37:14Z")
Here’s quite a thorough list of Tolkien-inspired songs: [http://fish.telia.lv/~witchcraft/jrrt/jrrt1.htm](http://fish.telia.lv/~witchcraft/jrrt/jrrt1.htm) ---
**Author:** ![dinahmoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dinahmoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dinahmoe)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lord-of-the-rings-led-zeppelin/168754/7 "2003-04-15T18:02:40Z")
“The Stand” by the Alarm is also about the Stephen King book dead0man mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![Number](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/number/32/242_2.png) [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lord-of-the-rings-led-zeppelin/168754/8 "2003-04-15T19:36:25Z")
Iron Maiden have songs about several literary works, including _Dune_ (_To Tame a Land_), _Stranger in a Strange Land_, and _The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner_. The 13-minute rendition of _Rime of the Ancient Mariner_ is probably their best effort. [The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets](http://www.holycow.com/thickets/) are a Canadian indie band whose songs are predominantly based on the writings of H.P. Lovecraft. They’re definitely worth checking out.