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    Posted: July 10 2011 at 14:00
It seems like whenever I've seen people poke fun at symph-prog lyrics, they use "elves" as the stereotypical subject matter. The strange thing is, I can't think of a single prog song with lyrics about elves. Can somebody help?
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Rush - Rivendell

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Points: 34055 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 10 2011 at 16:20
maybe this song have some fairies/elves relatedness, but it is fantasy thematicly strong


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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 10 2011 at 17:29
Kate Bush's King of the Mountain.
 
What?
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Do Radio Gnomes count? At the risk of sending Dean into an apopoplectic rage, I think the (lazy) association of elves to Prog has been forged by another (lazy) association of  fantasy Prog lyrics to Tolkien et al.

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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 10 2011 at 18:59
Elves? Shocked
 
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I thought it said... oh, nevermind. Elves it is.
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Points: 65268 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 10 2011 at 19:20
 the definitive '700 Elves' by Steeleye Span
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don't some Blind Guardian songs have elf themes?
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Sally Oldfield - The Song of The Quendi off the album Water Bearer
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...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR]
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Elves? Shocked
 
Oh. Pinch
 
 
I thought it said... oh, nevermind. Elves it is.
LOL interesting connotation though!
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Points: 178 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 11 2011 at 01:16
Jack in the Green - Tull ?
Meybe - at a stretch...
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Originally posted by avantgrind avantgrind wrote:

don't some Blind Guardian songs have elf themes?


Oh the mighty Valhalla, have you forgotten all those times we travelled with our elf friends?

"Three for the Kings of the elves high in light,
Nine to the mortals which cry."
-- "The Lord of the Rings"



"In my thoughts and in my dreams, they're always in my mind.
These songs of hobbits, dwarves and men, and elves,
Come close your eyes. You can see them too."
-- "The Bard's Song (In the Forest)"




"The Dark Elf" has the classic line "a dark seed of evil is grown", acknowledging that the word "elves" and the word "evil" have three identical letters.

Finally, "Valinor's empty now. Allied the elves and men, they shall be damned. Rise of Fall, a dark tale ends." -- "A Dark Passage"
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Points: 98 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 11 2011 at 07:29
ha! I was right. not really a fan aside from the first two records.
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the beginning of singring and the glass guitar
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