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04-23-2004, 09:26 AM
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Stormdancer of Doom
Join Date: Jan 2002
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For those interested in Tolkien-related music, also check out the Middle-Earth Music Reviews thread.
There are many people interested in music about Tolkien, and many who write and perform it. If you have music you'd like to recommend (or warn against!) please post a review there! There is a format at the top, just follow it when you post. Grace and peace, --mark12_30
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04-23-2004, 11:35 AM
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Wight
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Crickhallow
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I just got done downloading most of Blind Guardian's LOTR themed songs, and some of Summoning's and Battlelore's songs and I have to say they are pretty good. So if you like heavy metal and love LOTR then I strongly recommend that you check out these three bands.
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04-24-2004, 09:07 AM
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Shade of Carn Dûm
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Where I lay my head is home
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I must take the opportunity and push for one of my favourite bands: the finnish band Nightwish. I must admit that they're not a"tolkien-band" but the songwriter says that he has been inspired by the books, he's a real fantasy-fanatic. You should listen to Elvenpath, were they sing about the world of fantasy and LotR has a quite big part. There's also a song called Kinslayer, but I don't think it's about THE kinslaying...
Enya, who has done some of the music in the movies, is forever connected with Tolkien for me, and it was like that before the movies too. The first time I read the books, my dad listened to Enya in the background quite often. Since that, whenever I hear Enya I think of ME...It's pretty good music to listen to while reading LotR...
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04-24-2004, 09:17 AM
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Shade of Carn Dûm
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: abaft the beam
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There is also a Lord of the Rings Symphony by the Dutch composer Johan de Meij. I know that Howard Shore is currently touring the world with his Lord of the Rings Symphony, but this one predates the movies by about 10 years and is quite nice. I know that it's not really the style of music this thread is discussing, but it is modern in that it was recently composed. It's in five movements, each titled after a character or a place in the story.
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04-24-2004, 03:07 PM
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Shade of Carn Dûm
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: middle of Nowhere/Norway
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Blind Guardian ladies and gents!
I'm a huge fan of both Blind Guardian and Nightwish, and I'd just like to recommend BG's album "Nightfall in Middle-earth" for any metal fans out there, which is more less only inspired by the Silm, it's really excellent. And if you don't like metal you could download their song The lord of the Rings, which isn't especially heavy.
Nightwish aren't as obviously influenced by Tolkien as Blind Guardian, but they are, and besides, their music is great anyway (haha I've got concert tickets for July 24th, yeah!) 
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04-26-2004, 10:04 AM
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Haunting Spirit
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Bay of Eldanna
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Hawkwind
A College friend of mine was/is really into Hawkwind, so one time he plays this old (1982) album of theirs called 'Choose Your Masques' which was decent enough, I guess. Anyway, my friend then claims that the first track is actually all about the Lord of the Rings. Sure enough the lyrics follow general themes from Wars of the Ring, but right at the end there is a really eerie sample that sounds so convincing that it may have even been lifted straight from a radio adaption of LoTR. Amongst some strange atmospheric noises it goes:
"I have come. But I do not choose now to do what I came to do..."
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04-26-2004, 10:18 AM
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A Northern Soul
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Valinor
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Like Hawkind, there are several other progressive rock bands named after Middle-earth and/or with songs about Middle-earth. There are bands called Gandalf, Iluvatar, Eru's something-or-other, and many others I can't recall immediately. I think my favourite song is a song by Camel titled 'White Rider' - guess who it's about...
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12-05-2005, 06:31 PM
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Wight
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Location: Behind the hills
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12-05-2005, 08:47 PM
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Wandering through Middle-Earth (Sadly in Alberta and not ME)
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I remember playing the symphoney for band. It is still one of my favourite pieces for band even though the arangement we had was pretty simple. It actually got me to buy the CD.
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