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Posted: March 06 2004 at 00:51 |
Not a prog question, but anyway:
 Give me a Tolkien LOTR reference from Led Zeppelin 2. No Net research or looking at lyrics allowed, but you can play the album.
Who'll be first this time
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Posted: March 06 2004 at 07:40 |
You're sure there is one?  I love Led Zep 2 and I like Lord Of The Rings, but I never heard a reference...
Or does the drum solo of Bonzo remind you of Orcs? 
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Posted: March 06 2004 at 09:10 |
 Yes, Joren, I'm very sure! An actual, irrefutable LOTR reference in the lyrics. Come on, music fans! I'm waiting....
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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Peter
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Posted: March 07 2004 at 00:19 |
 Tch tch!
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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lucas
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Posted: March 07 2004 at 06:22 |
Ramble on : 'Mordor' and 'Gollum'[aka Smeagol].
On Led Zep IV there is also a reference to Tolkien's TLOR. Which one and on which song ?
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"Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood)
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Posted: March 07 2004 at 09:46 |
 Huzzah! Lucas wins! Well done!
On "Ramble On," Plant sings: "It was in the darkest depths of Mordor, I met a girl so fair. But Gollum, the evil one, crept up and slipped away with her."
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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Peter
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Posted: March 07 2004 at 10:03 |
 lucas wrote:
On Led Zep IV there is also a reference to Tolkien's TLOR. Which one and on which song ?
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On "The Battle of Evermore" there's a reference to the "Ring Wraiths."
Was that the one you had in mind?
Now, give me another Zeppelin LOTR reference, this time from "Houses of the Holy."
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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Joren
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Posted: March 07 2004 at 11:05 |
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Gee, I didn't know they were such Tolkien-fanatics!
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Posted: March 07 2004 at 13:34 |
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I have to listen to Houses of the Holy to find out any reference to Tolkien. About LZ IV, I thought of the Misty Mountains.
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"Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood)
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Posted: March 08 2004 at 06:04 |
GEE PETER you really area fan of THE RING!!  ....UH OH Im IN FOR IT NOW!!!
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Posted: March 08 2004 at 10:03 |
Joren wrote:
Gee, I didn't know they were such Tolkien-fanatics! |
Well, (lyricist) Plant apparently was, anyway. Page (supposedly) was into "black" magic. He used to live in self-proclaimed antichrist Aleister Crowley's former castle, and was supposedly a devotee of Crowley's books. (I've thumbed through some Crowley. Magic "how-to" books: delusional, rambling; absolute crap -- don't bother! Crowley was a nutbar!  (Or at least a charlatan! The rich and gullible supported him, for a while, but he died in ignominious obscurity.)
Prog also abounds with JRRT references. Very influential books!
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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Peter
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Posted: March 08 2004 at 10:09 |
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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Posted: March 08 2004 at 10:09 |
Peter Rideout wrote:
Joren wrote:
Gee, I didn't know they were such Tolkien-fanatics! |
Well, (lyricist) Plant apparently was, anyway. Page (supposedly) was into "black" magic. He used to live in self-proclaimed antichrist Aleistar Crowley's former castle. Crowley was a nutbar! (Or at least a charlatan!)
Prog also abounds with JRRT references. Very influential books!
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Page and black magic?? I didn't know that. One learns something new every day here!
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Posted: March 09 2004 at 05:47 |
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HEY is "Houses of the Holy" the one with all the little kids climbing the rocks?(i dont have every led zep album) I beleive one of them is actually Samantha Fox a famous model and(very cute in her time) "page three" girl who actually went on to a short lived singing career in which she had a couple of no 1 singles in Britain and Europe(and Australia) in the mid to late 80,s i also beleive that another one of the kids is Patsy Kensit ,actress and Acadamy Award nominee,but i cant confirm this.
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Posted: March 09 2004 at 07:19 |
Dude: My my, how the rumours do fly! I hadn't heard Fox or Kensit mentioned before. I had heard that the pictures are multiple "exposures" (no joke intended) of Plant's son and daughter. His son later died at a young age, and rumour further has it that Plant at least partly blamed this tragedy on Page's dabbling in the occult.
Anyway, that's the disc -- spot the LOTR reference, music fans!
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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Posted: March 09 2004 at 07:34 |
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Had not heard that one, it would be interesting to get to the truth of the matter(if that is possible!!)
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Posted: March 09 2004 at 17:54 |
Well Dude and Zep-heads, I FINALLY found an album cover site where the Hipgnosis (the company behind the HOTH cover art) photographer described the making of the cover. It was shot on the famous "Giant's Causeway" in Northern Ireland (in the rain), but the photog makes no mention of the identities of the (only two) children. If the kids had been either Plant's, or future celebs like Fox or Kensit, I'm sure he would have commented on that. Thus, the children on the cover appear to have been "nobodies" (no offense meant to them).
 Sadly, Plant's son Karac did die of a stomach infection in '77, at the age of five....
Rest In Peace, little Karac.
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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Posted: March 09 2004 at 18:12 |
Thanks Peter for clearing that up !!!
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Posted: March 09 2004 at 20:23 |
You're welcome, Dood!
PS: Samantha Fox had "number one" ---s! (rhymes with a word for "very popular songs") That goes a long way toward explaining her former star status. She even admitted such: "I owe it all to my ----s" (rhymes with a word for "the forerunners of transistors" in radios and amps)
Ha!
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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Posted: March 10 2004 at 10:56 |
Excuse me
Oh will ya excuse me
I’m just trying to find the bridge
Has anybody seen the bridge?
Please!
(have you seen the bridge? )
I ain’t seen the bridge!
(where’s that confounded bridge? )Maybe? I went through the lyrics for the whole album and I'm not seeing it. I've read those confounded books over and over. 
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OK, here’s another:
at least, not in this lifetime.... I can only watch such things on video!