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Originally Posted by Lindale
A rather obvous choice, Elvenpath by Nightwish. Oh well. I heard it after the movies, though I'm sure it was released first. The song has a good deal of Finnish stuff and Beauty and the Beast mythos and other "fantasy" stuff, but there are real Tolkien-y parts. And Bilbo gets mentioned. 
I'm not a real metal fan, but I like the song anyway. And I think NW has done a good deal of Tolkien-y songs. |
Interesting, having never heard of them previously, I checked them out on YouTube. They're rather like a more operatic (in both theme and aural tone) version of Evanescence.
But though they write about aspects of Middle-earth, do you think they actually invoke a feel of Tolkien's world? I mentioned Led Zeppelin and their allusions to Tolkien, and I do feel that
The Battle of Evermore certainly has a 'Tolkien-y' effect, but a song like
Ramble On (that invokes the names of Gollum and Mordor) does not have that same feel. In fact, the specific stanza...
"Mine's a tale that can't be told, my freedom I hold dear.
How years ago in days of old, when magic filled the air.
T'was in the darkest depths of Mordor, I met a girl so fair.
But Gollum, and the evil one crept up and slipped away with her, her, her....yeah."
makes little sense from a Middle-earth standpoint; although Robert Plant was never one for depth of lyrics (as a reading of
Stairway to Heaven makes abundantly clear).
Perhaps rather than pointing out entire albums that have such flair, maybe a Middle-earth soundtrack would have songs from different bands that best exemplify specific events in Middle-earth history.