OLIAS OF SUNHILLOW

Yesterday I went to a record fair and picked up a piece of vinyl I had not seen since i was 18 in 1976. Title is OLIAS OF SUNHILLOW by Jon Anderson of Yes. It comes in a green sleeve with a booklet with the storyline depicted therein. A goblin-fest with childish images and graphics to boot. The music is excellent. But the text looks like he boiled all of Tolkien works in a heated spoon and mainlined that whilst holding a pen waiting for the Muse to strike. And it/she struck him good. It got me thinking that if anyone wanted to place the birth of prog around a Whiter Shade of Pale 67/8 this here opus might be the apex of the genre; can only go downhill past that post. How do you outprog that? Any ideas? For me the organ/synth-rich soup offered here; and again a very fine soup it is; coupled with the goblin infestation; the knights; the damsels in the tower, the Glastonbury relishes ladled on makes it a contender for the Proggest prog ever progged. Show me otherwise but this here says to me "More prog you die" and yes A Great listen ...