Por que metaleiros gostam de Tolkien?

[IACOOBVS KAIZEN]

Deve ser, a mesma atração que os mesmos sentem por temáticas da Antiguidade Pagã Germânica, Escandinava e Céltica, que de certo modo, estão amplamente presentes na obra do autor.​

 

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How Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings Universe Influenced Heavy Metal

While Lord of the Rings is firmly entrenched as fantasy literature, Tolkien's masterpiece has had some far-reaching and genre-breaking influences.

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Why Were Rock Stars So Into The Lord of the Rings?

Long before next month’s Rings of Power, Tolkien was a sensation with rock icons, inspiring everyone from Led Zeppelin and The Beatles to Joni Mitchell and The Grateful Dead.

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Para caso alguém queira uma lista de músicas e álbuns inspirados no legendário:

• Blind Guardian ("Nightfall in Middle Earth") - Heavy metal/power metal.
• Led Zeppelin ("The Battle of Evermore", "Misty Mountain Hop", "Ramble On", "Over the Hills and Far Away", "Stairway to Heaven") - Hard rock/early heavy metal.
• Summoning - Symphonic black metal.
• Battlelore (letras sobre a Terra Média) - Symphonic metal.
• Amon Amarth (nome derivado de Tolkien) - Melodic death metal.
• Burzum (nome derivado de Tolkien) - Black metal.
• Cirith Ungol (nome derivado de Tolkien) - Heavy metal/doom metal.
• Gorgoroth (nome derivado de Tolkien) - Black metal.
• Black Breath (nome derivado de Tolkien) - Death metal.
• Thrice ("The Long Defeat") - Post-hardcore/alternative rock.
• Camel ("Nimrodel", "The White Rider") - Progressive rock.
• Rush ("Rivendell") - Progressive rock/hard rock.
• Jack Bruce ("To Isengard") - Rock/Blues rock.
• Mostly Autumn ("Music Inspired by The Lord of the Rings CD") - Progressive rock/folk rock.
• Glass Hammer ("The Middle-Earth Album") - Progressive rock/symphonic rock.
• Bo Hansson ("Music Inspired by Lord of the Rings") - Progressive rock/psychedelic rock.
• Pearls Before Swine ("Ring Thing") - Psychedelic folk.
• Bob Catley ("Middle Earth") - Progressive rock/hard rock.
• Ainur ("Children of Hurin", "Lay of Leithian") - Symphonic progressive rock.
• Sally Oldfield ("Songs of the Quendi") - Folk rock/new age.
• Enya ("May it Be", "Lothlórien") - Celtic/new age.
• Chris Thile ("Riddles in the Dark") - Bluegrass/folk.
• Broceliande ("The Starlit Jewel") - Celtic/folk.
• The Hobbitons (CD de 1996) - Folk.
• Narsilion ("Narsilion") - Neoclassical dark wave.