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Points: 155 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 05 2006 at 17:54

The best Tolkien inspired album I've listened to must be Barroquejon "Concerning The Quest, The Bearer and The Ring". Simply gorgeous!!!

David Hanus is the Chilean musician and creator of this venture, on which he plays every single instrument and performs all vocal duties. What we have here is a concept piece inspired on The Lord of the Rings, boasting a Symphonic style and Medieval touches not unlike the Glass Hammer and Ayreon sound.

Recommend you to listen some samples at their website.
http://www.geocities.com/barroquejon/
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Points: 246 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 05 2006 at 18:09
I dont know about tolkein but Ghost Reveries sounds like it has a very "side quest" warcraft storyline.
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Points: 331 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 05 2006 at 19:19
Originally posted by eugene eugene wrote:

Originally posted by Bern Bern wrote:

It seems that a lot of bands were inspired by JRR Tolkien for their lyrics. Do you know about some?

I'm thinking about  :

  • The trees - Rush (reminds me of the talking trees in the Lord of the rings)


I am not very good at Tolkien, but did talking trees in Lord of the Rings become all equaled by hatchet, axe and saw???

 

Ehm... pretty sure this song has nothing-whatsoever-to-do-with-Tolkien - it's about Neil Peart's political views at that time, when he was very much into libertarianism and Ayn Rand's writings.


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Points: 2703 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 05 2006 at 20:22
Originally posted by Antennas Antennas wrote:

Originally posted by eugene eugene wrote:

Originally posted by Bern Bern wrote:

It seems that a lot of bands were inspired by JRR Tolkien for their lyrics. Do you know about some?

I'm thinking about  :

  • The trees - Rush (reminds me of the talking trees in the Lord of the rings)


I am not very good at Tolkien, but did talking trees in Lord of the Rings become all equaled by hatchet, axe and saw???

 

Ehm... pretty sure this song has nothing-whatsoever-to-do-with-Tolkien - it's about Neil Peart's political views at that time, when he was very much into libertarianism and Ayn Rand's writings.

Yeah, that's what I thought.
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Points: 2771 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 05 2006 at 21:17

This thread on Tolkien-inspired band names might be of interest

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?FID=44& ;TID=7661&PN=0&TPN=1

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Points: 478 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 05 2006 at 22:03

Jon Anderson just came out with this album inspired by Lord of the Rings.  It even has a cover of Battle of Evermore!


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Points: 3083 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 05 2006 at 23:16
Coheed and Cambria's In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth syncs with a Lord of the Rings movie. It's transitively inspired by Tolkien in that sense. I'm sure they enjoy Tolkien's books too.
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Points: 3839 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 05 2006 at 23:59

hooray for perpetuating prog rock stereotypes!

anyway, here's a non-prog LOTR band: Battlelore.  not to mention the entire genre of Fantasy Metal.
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Points: 24392 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 07 2006 at 09:20
Originally posted by GoldenSpiral GoldenSpiral wrote:

anyway, here's a non-prog LOTR band: Battlelore.  not to mention the entire genre of Fantasy Metal.

True. A couple of their albums have been reviewed by the Bulletin of the Tolkien Society - one of these reviews was featured on the last issue. The album's title is "Third Age of the Sun". In the review the band's musical style is compared to that of Nightwish, as they have a female vocalist and they are Finnish as well.

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