Well, I just listened to "Stairway to heaven" lately, and I've come up with ssome more similarities. Here are all the lyrics:
There's a lady who's sure
all that glitters is gold -Bilbo's Aragorn poem
And she's buying the stairway to heaven.
When she gets there she knows, if the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for.
Ooh, ooh, and she's buying the stairway to heaven.
There's a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure
'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
In a tree by the brook, there's a songbird who sings,
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven. -sounds a bit like the hobbit
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it makes me wonder.
There's a feeling I get when I look to the west,
And my spirit is crying for leaving. -The elves' longing for Valinor
In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees,- Isengard?
And the voices of those who stand looking.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it really makes me wonder.
And it's whispered that soon if we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason. -Ulmo? Some other water-related singing/music (especially Lothlorien)
And a new day will dawn for those who stand long - End of battles, beginning of 4th age, destruction of ring
And the forests will echo with laughter. -possible Fangorn
If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now, -Sam eavesdropping
It's just a spring clean for the May queen.
Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on. -Frodo choosing to accept the quest, or debating about whether to destroy it, or Sam's decisions, or Gollum's
And it makes me wonder.
Your head is humming and it won't go, in case you don't know,
The piper's calling you to join him,
Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow, and did you know - Wind from the West
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind.
And as we wind on down the road -The road goes ever on and on...
Our shadows taller than our soul. - The ring taking over Frodo?
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show -Galadriel or Luthien maybe
How everything still turns to gold. -Sounds very similar to what Gandlaf said in the movies. Well, they basedthem on
something, didn't they?
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last.
When all are one and one is all - Fate
To be a rock and not to roll. -"He is a moss-gatherer, and I have been a stone doomed to rolling" Gandalf
And she's buying the stairway to heaven.
Well, slightly farfetched (in some cases), but on the whole I don't think I did too badly.
edit: well it seems someone sees things
a similar way...