OK, here’s another:

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

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 ?

lucas wrote: On Led Zep IV there is also a reference to Tolkien's TLOR. Which one and on which song ?

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."

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!

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!

Page and black magic?? I didn't know that. One learns something new every day here!

 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! 

 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.

 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!