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From: psc@lzwi.UUCP (Paul S. R. Chisholm)
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Subject: Re: music in sf (esp. Led Zeppelin)
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Date: Wed, 31-Jul-85 01:14:54 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 31 01:14:54 1985
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Summary: Stairway to Heaven and Lord of the Rings?

< I can use my magic to change the color to red -- but I don't do windows. >

In article <1040@wucs.UUCP>, tp@wucs.UUCP (tom thumbs) writes:
>     --> speaking of sf & music, someone mentioned hints of "Lord of the
>     Rings" in Led Zeppelin... if memory serves me correctly, "Ramble On"
>     from Led Zep II had lines like "in the darkest depths of Mordor
>     [something] a girl so fair / but Gollum, [?] the evil one, crept up
      ^ I loved ^
>     and slipped away with her..." and more things, enough so that while
>     in an altered state of consciousness, I had a mystic revelation about
>     the relationship between LZ II and LotR which didn't survive the
>     translation back to reality.
> 	     tom patterson      ihnp4!wucs!tp (uucp)
> 				    and wherever fine toys are sold.

<< SPOILER WARNING - if you don't know how LORD OF THE RINGS ends! >>

Y'know, it's funny.  I heard those references to Mordor and Gollum
in "Ramble On", too.  Ever since, "Stairway to Heaven" (the last cut
on the album) seemed to be telling the story of Saruman's trip west
after the destruction of the Ring.  (THE RETURN OF THE KING, Book Six,
Chapter Six, "Many Partings"; pages 322-3 in my old Ballantine Books
edition.)  Saruman would have to be "the lady", so you can't interpret
this too literally.
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