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* For the 2011 Silvester fireworks in [[wikipedia:Phantasialand|Phantasialand]], [[Concerning Hobbits (soundtrack)|Concerning Hobbits]] was used as a soundtrack.
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* For the 2011 Silvester fireworks in [[wikipedia:Phantasialand|Phantasialand]], [[Concerning Hobbits (soundtrack)|Concerning Hobbits]] was used as a soundtrack.
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* [[Girion, Lord of Dale]] from the {{Hlink|media=film2}} soundtrack was used in the 2020 show Special Show mit Patrick Lemoine in Phantasialand.
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* [[Girion, Lord of Dale]] from the {{Hlink|media=film2}} soundtrack was used in the 2020 show Special Show mit Patrick Lemoine in Phantasialand.
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* The restaurant The Flaming Feather in [[wikipedia:Toverland|Toverland]]
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* The restaurant The Flaming Feather in [[wikipedia:Toverland|Toverland]] a [[Hobbit-hole]].
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=== Movies, television, and radio ===
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|After Tolkien|
[Adaptations](/wiki/Adaptations_of_The_Lord_of_the_Rings) [Works inspired by](/wiki/Works_inspired_by_J._R._R._Tolkien) [J.R.R. Tolkien](/wiki/J.R.R._Tolkien)s [legendarium](/wiki/Legendarium) of [Middle-earth](/wiki/Middle-earth) has had a profound and wide-ranging impact on popular culture.
This is especially true for [The Lord of the Rings](/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings), ever since its publication in the 1950s, but especially throughout the 1960s and 1970s, where young people embraced it as a countercultural saga, and its influence has been vastly extended in the present day, thanks to the live-action film trilogy by [Peter Jackson](/wiki/Peter_Jackson). Many of the following references are directly inspired by the latter films rather than the book.
References
Amusement parks
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[The Bridge of Khazad-dûm](/wiki/The_Bridge_of_Khazad-d%C3%BBm) and [Old Friends](/wiki/Old_Friends) are used as soundtracks for the themed area Hollywood Street Set in Movie Park Germany.
- For the 2011 Silvester fireworks in
Phantasialand, [Concerning Hobbits](/wiki/Concerning_Hobbits_(soundtrack)) was used as a soundtrack.
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[Girion, Lord of Dale](/wiki/Girion,_Lord_of_Dale) from the [The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug](/wiki/The_Hobbit:_The_Desolation_of_Smaug)soundtrack was used in the 2020 show Special Show mit Patrick Lemoine in Phantasialand.
- The restaurant The Flaming Feather in
Toverland, in the Netherlands, intentionally resembles a [Hobbit-hole](/wiki/Hobbit-hole).
Movies, television, and radio
- In the movie 17 Again, Ned talks to Jane (the Principal) at the restaurant table about how he bought Gandalf In an episode of the sitcom
Friends, Rossand Chandlerspeak about a university friend, called Gandalf (-the Party Wizard).
When Joeyasks why they call him Gandalf, they reply, Didnt you read The Lord of the Rings in high school? to which Joey responds, No, I had sex in high school.
- In addition to spoofing elements of The Lord of the Rings,
South Parkhas a nurse with a conjoined twin fetus on her head called Nurse Gollum.
- The South Park episode
The Return of the Fellowship of the Rings to the Two Towers is a parody of the movie version of The Lord of the Rings.
- The TV show
Babylon 5(1993–1998) includes occasional homages to The Lord of the Rings, as well as epic themes drawn from similar [mythological](/wiki/Mythology)roots. See Babylon 5 influencesfor a more detailed exploration.
- In
The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandyepisode Here Thar Be Dwarves, Billy)finds his way to the Dwarves stronghold Boringya. There Dwarves leader Beardbottom tells him about the on-going Dwarves war with Elves over the monopoly on the cookie industry, and asks him for an aid in the big final assault on an Elves Cookie Factory. A flashback about the origins of the war is a nod to the [Council of Elrond](/wiki/Council_of_Elrond), where the races are shown dividing up a monopol on the fast-food industry.
- In an episode of Phineas and Ferb, Agent P and Major Monograms son Monty go on a mission in a LOVEMUFFIN building.
When several goons attack them, including a bodybuilder. Monty references the famous Boromir quote They have a cave troll.
- In another episode of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_The_Grim_Adventures_of_Billy_and_Mandy, Beast and Barbarians, [The Hobbit](/wiki/The_Hobbit)and [The Lord of the Rings](/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings)are parodied: Mandy acquires a ring from a Gollum-like creature by solving a riddle (Whats black and blue and red all over? That would be you if I dont get that ring pronto!), with that ring she gains power over an evil army.
- The TV show
Gilmore Girlsoften has references to The Lord of the Rings in various episodes.
- In an episode of
The Simpsons, the family goes to a dude ranch. While there they are taken on a picnic by Cookie, the ranch owner. After finishing Cookie calls Cleany to come clean up. Cleanys movements and mannerisms are modeled precisely after [Gollum](/wiki/Gollum)and he refers to the garbage as his precious. Cleany was voiced by Andy Serkis.
- In the third Futurama movie;
Benders Game, many locations from Middle-Earth are parodied, such as Minas Tirith, Mount Doom, and Moria. Some of the characters are also based on characters from Lord of the Rings.
- In Disneys sequel to
The Emperors New Groove, Kronks New Groove, Yzma causes people in a retirement home to become addicted to a youth potion that is actually green water. When Kronk buys out the retirement home, Rudy (the old man that Emperor Kuzco had thrown out the window in the first movie) comes and begs for a spot. When Kronk takes out the potion, Rudy jumps up and takes it out of his hand and then bends his back, rubbing the potion. Imitating Gollum, he then said, My precious...Kronk just wants it all for himself!
- In an episode of
Family Guy, Stewie is at the park. When he sees another kid at the jungle gym Stewie pushes the kid on the ground and says Cry, cry like Sauron when he lost his contacts. The scene then shifts to a cutaway showing the Eye of Sauron frantically searching for his lost contact.
- On another episode of Family Guy, there is a scene that also parodies the movie Poltergeist as well as The Lord of the Rings. Chris is thrown from his bedroom window into the clutches of a living tree. The scene eventually parodies the epic confrontation between Gandalf and the Balrog as seen in The Lord of the Rings when Herbert the Creepy Old Pedophile shows up to save Chris.
Herbert recites the film trilogy Gandalfs line, You shall not pass!.
- In the third episode of Family Guy, Tiegs for Two, after Peter Griffin finds out that Brian Griffin is banging Cheryl Tiegs, He says Light the Beacons! Which is followed up by a parody of the Lighting of the Beacons scene from
[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King](/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_Return_of_the_King). With [Aragorn](/wiki/Aragorn_II_Elessar)commenting Cheryl Tiegs, Nice.
- In the episode Whoever Did This of
The Sopranos, two children play with bows and arrows while quoting lines from [The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring](/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_Fellowship_of_the_Ring). As a result, one of the children (the son of capo Ralphie Cifareto) is fatally wounded by an arrow to the chest.
- In the episode Two Birds of a Feather of
Magnum, P.I., a scene showing Magnum and his friends during the Vietnam War, his team uses the codename Frodo while trying to contact Gandalf to get air support.
- In the show
Odd Job Jack, episode 2.02 (Lord of the Three Ring Binder) spoofs The Lord of the Rings, with Jack as Frodo (and as Déagol, when Jack was in his College years). One character plays Tom Bombadil, and is thrown literally under a bus.
- The episode D & DD of the animated series
Dexters Laboratoryspoofs Dungeons and Dragons in general (even mentioning a warrior called Gygax), but inserts references to Middle-earth. Dexter is forced to play as Hodo the Furry-footed Burrower, a hobbit/halfling whose name is possibly a combination of Hobbit and Frodo.
- Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report has made several references to both The Lord of the Rings, Middle-earth and Dungeons and Dragons on his show.
- In the movie
Clerks II, Randal equates the Lord of The Rings movies as being 3 movies about walking. The first movie is demonstrated by Randal taking an exaggerated step while blank-faced; the second by tripping and looking back and down mid-walk; the third consisting of the same walk, culminating in a gesture to remove the ring from the finger and toss it downward. Before the film was made, director Kevin Smithhad done exactly the same thing during an appearance on The Tonight Show.
- Talk show host
Rush Limbaughonce described himself as a black smoke from Mordor (as if hindering the political party considered left of center).
- In the
Stargate Atlantisepisode Critical Mass), Dr. Bill Lee uses the lighting of the beacons of Gondor to explain his idea of relaying a message to Atlantis.
- In the
Fosters Home for Imaginary Friendsepisode Partying is Such Sweet Soiree, when Mac goes on a sugar-high rampage, he pets sugar-related objects and says, My precious... immitating Gollum.
- An episode of
MADtvdid a parody of Lord of the Rings known as Lords of the Bling where Bill Cosbyplayed Gandalf and said, We have to take the ring to Mordor, by the MotoPhoto! Frodo was now Froho.
- In the
W.I.T.C.H.)episode G is for Garbage, when Irma and Blunk go to Blunks hideout, Blunk says, My precious... while loving his trash, and he even sounds like Gollum.
- In the flim
Brick)the character called The Pin extols the quality of Tolkiens writing to Brendan.
- In the TV series Bones, FBI Agent Seeley Booth countered Temperance Brennans suspicions of voodoo: and then we just toss the ring into the molten river, and blah blah blah (The Man in the Morgue).
- The
[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring](/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_Fellowship_of_the_Ring)was mocked by Mystery Science Theater 3000alumni Mike Nelsonand Kevin Murphy)in an audio commentary for Nelsons RiffTraxservice. However, Nelson has publicly stated that unlike most of the films featured on the service, he actually likes the film.
- The film was also mocked by comedians
Aries Spears, and Debera Wilson, of MAD TV. The show spoofed it as Lords Of The Bling, a version of the movie produced by BET, and with an all black cast such as Lil Kim, Sisqo, Bill Cosby, Missy Elliot, and a few others. MAD TV also parodied the other two movies.
- Comedy group
Whitest Kids You Knowdid a skit mocking Lord of the Rings. It consists of Frodo asking Gandalf why he didnt use more magic during their journey or ask the eagles to just fly them to Mount Doom.
- The Lord of the Rings is mentioned in two episodes in
The Big Bang Theory. In The Middle-Earth Paradigm, Leonard, Sheldon, Howard, and Raj all have a [Frodo Baggins](/wiki/Frodo_Baggins)costume in which Leonard wears. In The Precious Fragmentation, Leonard, Sheldon, Howard, and Raj find a box of collectibles and in it, a prop of the [One Ring](/wiki/One_Ring). They all fight over who gets to keep it.
- In the cartoon Regular Show, the 2012 Christmas Special serves as an homage to the Lord of the Rings books and movies. The main group goes on a long quest quest to destroy a powerful, mind corrupting presentbox in a volcano.
- The scene where Muscle Man unsuccessfully tries to destroy the box with a hammer is similar to the scene in The Fellowship of the Ring, where Gimlis attempt to destroy the one ring with his axe fails as well.
- Later, when Benson beats the Pinball game and the long, thin bridge over the abyss appears, the scene (especially with the collapsing bridge and the almost-falling Benson) references the moment also in The Fellowship of the Ring where Gandalf fights the Balrog on a similar bridge.
- In the long running Si-fi Doctor Who, in a deleted scene for the episode The Eleventh Hour, the Doctor refers to himself as Space Gandalf.
- In the 2014 movie The Interview, Dave Skylark refers to Aaron Rapoport, his producer and friend, and himself respectively as Samwise and Frodo to emphasize the bond between them.
- In the 2015 film The Martian, adapted from the novel by Andy Weir (see below), a meeting to discuss the rescue of an astronaut from Mars is described as Project Elrond. When Annie Montrose questions the name, Mitch Henderson (played by
[Sean Bean](/wiki/Sean_Bean), who played [Boromir](/wiki/Boromir)in the films) explains it means they are having a secret meeting, prompting the rest of the characters to fully explain it is a Lord of the Rings reference. Teddy Sanders remarks that if the meeting is called Elrond he wants his code-name to be [Glorfindel](/wiki/Glorfindel).
- In Despicable Me 2, Edith mentions
[Gollum](/wiki/Gollum)when Margo asked Gru what celebrity does he look like to sign him up for online dating.
Music
Middle Earth)was the name of a highly influential underground music club in London, UK, from the mid 1960s. The Beatles song She Said, She Said includes a passing reference to The Lord of the Rings, and writer John Lennonwas known to have been a fan of them. During the songs fade-out, Lennon can be heard singing a series of seemingly nonsensical sounds; these phrases are either a Lennon pre-taped vocal played backwards, or Lennon imitating the sound of a reverse-tape voice. At the start of the fade-out Lennon can clearly be heard chanting the words Ash Nazg, the first two words of the invocationengraved on the [Ring of Power](/wiki/Ring_of_Power).
- US pop group The Hobbits released their debut album Down to Middle Earth in 1967.
- American psychedelic group
Gandalf)formed in 1967. Steve Peregrin Took(born Stephen Ross Porter) of British rock band Tyrannosaurus Rex)took his name from the hobbit [Peregrin Took](/wiki/Peregrin_Took)(better known as Pippin) in [The Lord of the Rings](/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings). Took later recorded under the pseudonym [Shagrat the Vagrant](/wiki/Shagrat), before forming a band called Shagrat)in 1970. Leonard Nimoys music: The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins (1968) is based on [The Hobbit](/wiki/The_Hobbit).
Tom Rappset most of the verse of the One Ring (Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky...) to music as Ring Thing in Pearls Before Swine)s second album, Balaklava (1968). Led Zeppelins music: Ramble On (1969) refers to [Gollum](/wiki/Gollum)and (/wiki/Mordor), [Misty Mountain Hop](/wiki/Misty_Mountain_Hop) (1971) is named after Tolkiens [Misty Mountains](/wiki/Misty_Mountains), and [The Battle of Evermore](/wiki/The_Battle_of_Evermore) (1971) is an actual allegory from the [Battle of the Pelennor Fields](/wiki/Battle_of_the_Pelennor_Fields) from The Return of the King;the line in Stairway To Heaven the feeling I get when I look to the west signifies the longing for the Elven undying lands which are to the west which many characters in Tolkiens work experience; while Over the Hills and Far Away (1973) refers to The Hobbit.
- British musician
Twink)recorded the songs Unexpected Party (featuring a reading from ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’) and Gandalf’s Garden in 1969/1970. Genesis)song Stagnation (from Trespass), 1970) was about Gollum. The most direct references being And I will wait for ever, beside the silent mirror. And fish for bitter minnows amongst the weeds and slimy water.
and To take all the dust and the dirt from my throat, To wash out the filth that is deep in my guts. [[citation needed]]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citing_sources
- The song Lothlorien was included on the 1971 album Ring of Hands by British group
Argent).
- British progressive rockers
Mirkwood)formed in 1971.
- Huw Lloyd-Langton (ex-
Hawkwind), Dave Anderson (ex- Amon Düül II, ex- Hawkwind) and John Lingwood formed the short-lived band [Amon Dîn](/wiki/Amon_D%C3%AEn)in 1972.
- Swedish keyboard player
Bo Hanssonrecorded an entire concept albumtitled The Lord of the Rings in 1972, which was performed mostly on electronic keyboard instruments.
- Progressive rock band
Camel)recorded the track Nimrodel / The Procession / The White Rider with obvious references to [The Lord of the Rings](/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings), for their 1974 album Mirage). Rush)has a song called Rivendell (1975) on their Fly by Nightalbum.
- German electronic group
Harmonia)recorded the track Gollum for their 1975 album Deluxe.
- Irish/American band Turner & Kirwan of Wexford included the song Frodo’s Theme on their 1977 album Absolutely And Completely.
Styx)has a song called Lords of the Ring on their Pieces of Eightalbum (1978).
Sally Oldfieldhas a group of songs called Songs of the Quendi on her Water Beareralbum (1978, Bronze Records Ltd.). Australian jazzmusician and composer John Sangsterundertook an ambitious three-volume jazz interpretation of the trilogy in the late 1970s, using most of the best Australian jazz musicians of the time as session players.
- The symphonic rock band
Marillionwas named after The Silmarillion.
- The Austrian musician
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandalf_(musician)(Heinz Strobl) chose his name with reference to the hobbits wizard friend. He has composed several pieces of music which deal with themes and characters originating from The Lord of the Rings, some of which can be found on his second album, Visions (1981).
- Power metal band Attacker released an album named Battle of Helms Deep (1985) based on the Battle of the Hornburg.
Johan de Meij’s first symphony The Lord of the Rings is based on the trilogy. The symphony consists of five separate movements, each illustrating a personage or an important episode from the series. The symphony was written in the period between March 1984 and December 1987, and had its première in Brussels on 15th March 1988.
The movements are:
- GANDALF (The Wizard)
- LOTHLORIEN (The Elvenwood)
- GOLLUM (Sméagol)
- JOURNEY IN THE DARK
- The Mines of Moria
- The Bridge of Khazad-Dûm
- HOBBITS
- The French singer
Jacques Higelinis inspired by [Tom Bombadil](/wiki/Tom_Bombadil)in his song Tom Bombadilom, released on the album Tombé du ciel in 1988.
- The German power metal band
[Blind Guardian](/wiki/Blind_Guardian)has a song called Lord of the Rings on the album Tales from the Twilight World(1991). On their Somewhere far beyond(1992) there are Songs called The Bards Song (In the Forest) and The Bards Song (The Hobbit), which are both based on Tolkiens Works. They also released an album based on The Silmarillon called [Nightfall in Middle-Earth](/wiki/Nightfall_in_Middle-Earth)(1998), including songs like The Curse of Fëanor, and Into The Storm, retelling the struggle [Middle-earth](/wiki/Middle-earth)endured when the [Two Trees](/wiki/Two_Trees)were destroyed. Some of their other works also contain references to Tolkiens creations.
- Swedish power metal band Sabaton has a song titled Shadows on their album Metalizer about the Nazguls
[Enya](/wiki/Enya)recorded the song Lothlórien in 1991 and also performed the songs May It Be and Aníron for the soundtrack of Peter Jacksons film of The Fellowship of the Ring.
- Some songs by the
celtic metalband Cruachan), such as The Fall of Gondolin (1992), have been inspired by The Lord of the Rings.
- The progressive rock group
Glass Hammerhas numerous Tolkien-influenced songs, including Nimrodel, and a CD entitled Journey of the Dúnadan (1993) which is a loose interpretation of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and a CD entitled The Middle-earth Album (2001) which contains several songs recorded live at the Prancing Pony in Bree.
- The Finnish musicians
Nightwishhave a song called Elvenpath on their album Angels Fall First (1997) which features a Lord of the Rings sample. They also have references to [Tolkien](/wiki/Tolkien)s works in their song Wishmaster), released on the album of the same name, in 2001, including Elbereth and Lorien. They also recorded with the London Philharmonic Orchestrafor their album Once)released in 2004.
- The
[Tolkien Ensemble](/wiki/Tolkien_Ensemble)composed original music to all songs and poems in The Lord of the Rings, publishing 4 CDs in total over a period of 8 years, as well as a compilation album in 2006, ordering their songs as they appear in the books. Their work is approved by the [Tolkien Estate](/wiki/Tolkien_Estate).
- German power metal band
[Blind Guardian](/wiki/Blind_Guardian)released their album [Nightfall in Middle-Earth](/wiki/Nightfall_in_Middle-Earth)in 1998.
- The group
Nickel Creekhas a song called The House of Tom Bombadil (Nickel Creek, 2000).
- The
[Brobdingnagian Bards](/wiki/Brobdingnagian_Bards)have named one of their tracks Tolkien (2001), and the remix The Lord of the Rings. They have an album named [Memories of Middle Earth](/wiki/Memories_of_Middle_Earth).
- The
Spanish metalband [Lórien](/wiki/L%C3%B3rien), named after the forest Lothlórien in the novel, released an album in 2002 entitled Secrets of the Eldar with such songs as The Voice of Saruman. Alan Horvathstarted writing the songs for The Rings Project ( [2004](/wiki/2004)) in 1972.
- The 2003 CD Wizards And Demons: Music Inspired By The Writings Of J.R.R. Tolkien (Castle Music) was a compilation of songs by psychedelic, progressive and folk artists recorded between 1968 and 1978 (though not all explicitly reference Tolkiens work).
The tracks were:
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[Man]- Prelude/The Storm (1969)
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[Fire]- Tell You A Story (1970)
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[Skip Bifferty]- The Hobbit (1968)
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[Trader Horne]- Three Rings For Elven Kings (1970)
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[Uriah Heep]- The Wizard (1972)
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[Fat Mattress]- Magic Forest (1969)
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[Mike Cooper]- Singing Tree (1972)
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[Quiet World]- Sam (1971)
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- Songs Of The Quendi (1978)
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[Quiet World]- Traveller (1970)
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[Trader Horne]- The Mutant (1970)
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[Paul Bretts Sage]- The Tower (1970)
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[Sam Gopal]- The Dark Lord (1968) [Decameron]- Journeys End (1975)
- Australian band
[Soundestiny](/wiki/Soundestiny)released the album [Shadow Rising](/wiki/Shadow_Rising)in 2004, inspired by The Lord of the Rings but lacking any direct mentions of entities within it.
This was Part One of a two-album RingLord saga, the second album being [Winds of Change](/wiki/Winds_of_Change)which was released in 2010. Additionally, they released the EP [All that Glitters](/wiki/All_that_Glitters)in 2009 and the album [Dragon Quest](/wiki/Dragon_Quest)in 2012, both inspired by [The Hobbit](/wiki/The_Hobbit). Jonathan Petersmusic CD Journey of the Ring (2005) features an hour of music inspired by Tolkiens novel. The music follows the story chapter by chapter. Called the unofficial sound track to the books by fans.
- Many metal bands, especially
black metalbands, have taken their band name from The Lord of the Rings. Typically the names of evil places and characters are taken. Examples are Burzum(formerly known as Uruk-Hai), Darkthrone, Gorgoroth), Mordor), Sauron), although not all are evil, Death metal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandalf_(band)being one of them. There are also various metal bands owing their names to Tolkiens languages, such as Aglarond (Mexico), Akallabêth (Sweden), Amon Amarth)(Sweden), Almáriel (Russia), Amon Din (Serbia), Anarion (Australia), Arda (Austria), Avatar (Belgium), Azaghal (Finland), Azrael (Spain), Cirith Gorgor (Netherlands), Cirith Ungol (US), Dol Amroth (Greece), Izengard (India), Fangorn (Germany) and many more.
- The Swedish New Frontier band
Machinae Supremacyuses a blend of two samples, one from [The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring](/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_Fellowship_of_the_Ring)that features Australian actor [Hugo Weaving](/wiki/Hugo_Weaving), the other from The Matrix(which has the same actor in it), as the introduction to their song Hybrid (the same song also features sounds from a SidStation, a synthesizer that re-creates original C64sounds).
- British stoner rock band
Orange Goblinhas tracks on their album Frequencies From Planet Tennamed Lothlorien and Sarumans Wish, after the Elven forest and the evil wizard in The Lord of the Rings.
- All songs by the Finnish metal band
Battleloreare based on Middle Earth.
- Almost all songs by Austrian
black metalbands Summoning)and Rivendell are based on Middle Earth.
- Prog Hard-core band
The Fall Of Troyhave a song on their eponymously named debut album titled The March Of The Ents
- Speed Metal band
Running Wildhas a song entitled (/wiki/Mordor).
- There was an early heavy metal band in Louisiana named Shadowfax after Gandalfs steed in The Lord of the Rings.
- Prog-rock keyboard player
Rick Wakemanhas an album entitled Songs of Middle Earth: Inspired by The Lord of the Rings- which is a re-issue of previously recorded material.
- The
new ageartist [David Arkenstone](/wiki/David_Arkenstone)has an album entitled [Music Inspired By Middle Earth](/wiki/Music_Inspired_By_Middle_Earth). Also, the name Arkenstone was taken from The Hobbit.
- Funk Metal weirdos
Nuclear Rabbitstrack The Pimp the Bitch and the Magic Beans is based around the encounter between Bilbo and Gollum in The Hobbit and contains numerous lines from the book. [Nazgûl](/wiki/Nazg%C3%BBl)are a Black Metal band from Italy whose members describe their music as Orkish Black Metal. All their lyrics are exclusively written in Latin, and deal with the war waged in Middle-Earth.
- The Swedish death metal band Unleashed have a song called We must join with him, which uses lines from
[Saruman](/wiki/Saruman)speaking with (/wiki/Gandalf)in [The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring](/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_Fellowship_of_the_Ring), and the line smoke rising from the mountain.
- American thrash metal band Megadeth released their album Endgame in 2009, which featured a song called This Day We Fight, which is a direct quote from Aragons speech before the final battle at the end of
[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King](/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_Return_of_the_King).
The song is presumed to be about that battle.
Literature
S.M. Stirlings characters in Dies the Fire and its sequels include a young woman who is obsessed with the works of Tolkien, and ends up founding a military group known as the Dunedain Rangers. The villain of the trilogy also refers to the trilogy, using (/wiki/Sauron)s emblem of the Lidless Eyeas the flag of the new nation he founds. Terry Pratchetts novel Witches Abroadfeatures an encounter with a Gollum-like creature, which jumps on to the main characters boat and proclaims Itssss my birthday. Granny Weatherwaxthen hits the creature with an oar, before quipping Orrible little bugger.
- There are various references to The Lord of the Rings, e.g. to the Ents, in The Talisman (1984), a novel by
Stephen Kingand Peter Straub. There are also references to The Lord of the Rings in several of Stephen Kings other novels (e.g. Insomnia, The Stand, etc.). This is most notable in his fantasy series The Dark Tower, which is based on the Robert Browningpoem Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, but severely influenced by Lord of the Rings.
- The modern-era hero in
Neal Stephensons Cryptonomicon(1999) views himself as a dwarf, his grandfather the wikipedia:cryptanalystas an elf, an ex- Navy Sealas one of the race of Men, and refers to his nemesis (a psychotic lawyer) as Gollum.
He recognizes Enoch the Redas a wizard and, true to form, Enoch appears in the wikipedia:Baroque Cycleas well.
- In
Matthew Reillys novel Seven Ancient Wondersa character uses imagery from The Lord of the Rings to warn her comrades that their base has been taken over, telling them that their return is like [Gimli](/wiki/Gimli)s return to [Moria](/wiki/Moria). Robert Jordanhas an inn called The Nine Rings in The Great Hunt, and when Rand reads the sign in front of the inn, the book states, Rand swung down with a smile and tied Red to one of the hitching posts out front. The Nine Rings had been one of his favorite adventure stories when he was a boy; he supposed it still was.
- In the
Harry Potterseries, several people are named after places or people in The Lord of the Rings, examples are a portrait in the Headmasters Office, called Everard Proudfoot, Lord Voldemort is also know as The Dark Lord, a boy by the name of Neville Longbottom and an author named Bathilda Bagshot, in which Bagshot Row is the place where Bag End is located.
- In a The Simpsons Comics series called Bart Simpsons Treehouse of Horror, there is a segment called, Ring Around The Simpsons which is a parody of The Lord of the Rings.
It mostly shows how The Simpsons are being corrupted by the ring one by one and that all the characters of The Fellowship die by accident except for Frodo.
- In Issue #3 of
IDWs comic adaption of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic), Queen Chrysalis, observing Twilight Sparkles arguments with her friends through a [Palantíri](/wiki/Palant%C3%ADri)-like device, proclaims The Fillyship is broken, before sending guards to spy on them.
- In the German fantasy novel Märchenmond (English title:
Magic Moon) by Wolfgang Hohlbein, the wizard Themistocles initially offers the protagonist Kim the alternative name of Gandalf to address him.
- The 2011 science fiction novel The Martian, about a mission to rescue an astronaut stranded on Mars, includes a meeting that is dubbed Project Elrond because the meeting is done in secret.
- In Have a Little Faith and Other Stories, a comic adaptation of
Strawberry Shortcakes Berry Bitty Adventureshas a little references to The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.
Games
Computer and video games
- Main article:
[Middle-earth in video games](/wiki/Middle-earth_in_video_games)
- In the
MMORPG RuneScape, there is an inn called The Dancing Donkey, which is a spoof of the Prancing Pony.
Also, Mithril is one of the armor types available; true to the LotR books, it is lighter than other armor.
- In the adventure game
Dreamfall, the character of Crow mentions that he was sidekick of the year, he then says he lost next year to some fat short guy, all he did was carry someone up a mountain, alluding to Sam carrying Frodo.
- In the video game
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Mithril is again an armor type. However, this mithril armor is directly based off Tolkiens mithril, and gives a good picture of what a full suit of the armor would look like.
- In the game
The Book of Unwritten Tales, the player can, when giving a ring to an arch-mage, state that their name is Mr. Underhill.
- In the MMORPG Realm of the Mad God, Mithril is an armor type, and Hobbits and Ents are monsters that can be fought.
- In the video game Terraria, there is
Mythril orewhich can be crafted into weapons and armor.
- Soldier from
Team Fortress 2has domination lines to Sniper referencing [Bilbo Baggins](/wiki/Bilbo_Baggins), about how Sniper is from New Zealand; however he is actually Australian. This refers to The Lord of the Rings trilogy being shot in [New Zealand](/wiki/New_Zealand).
- In
Transformice, (/wiki/Sauron)s helmet appears in the shop.
Other games
- Several games have been based directly on The Lord of the Rings and related works, including, amongst many,
SPIs War of the Ring (1977), [Iron Crown Enterprises](/wiki/Iron_Crown_Enterprises) (ICEs) [Middle-earth Role Playing](/wiki/Middle-earth_Role_Playing)game (MERP, 1982–1999) and [Middle-earth Collectible Card Game](/wiki/Middle-earth_Collectible_Card_Game)(MECCG, 1995–1999), the Lord of the Rings series of board games by [Reiner Knizia](/wiki/Reiner_Knizia)(2000 onward), a variant of Risk)(2002) as well as [The Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game](/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings_Trading_Card_Game)(2001) made by Decipher. [The Lord of the Rings](/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings)books were one of the main original inspirations for the Dungeons & Dragons [role-playing game](/wiki/Role-playing_game), and hence continue to be a major influence on the entire field of role-playing and [computer games](/wiki/Computer_and_video_games)having fantasy epic themes.
- Some of Middle-earth references can be heard or seen in Half-Life: Alyx.
- The Wargames Research Group set of fantasy miniatures rules,
Hordes of the Things(HotT), was first published in 1991.
- Some of
Games Workshops Warhammerfactions relate to those found in [Tolkien](/wiki/Tolkien)s writings.
- In the MMORPG World of Warcraft, one of the human males jokes is a joking description of The Lord of The Rings, except the One Ring is replaced by a bracelet and the main character is a gnome, instead of a Hobbit.
- Installments of the Japanese RPG series
Final Fantasyusually contain Mithril armor and items (as early upgrades) that the players party can buy or win.
Satire and parody based on The Lord of the Rings
- An internet-based
Flash animationcommunity produced Lord of the Clocks, a short animated parody.
- An independent film company in South Carolina released
this treatmentas a college humor project.
- The
Harvard Lampoonsatire Bored of the Rings, and its prequel The Soddit.
- A little-known
[BBC](/wiki/BBC)Radio series, Hordes of the Things(1980) attempted to parody heroic fantasy in the style of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
- A German resynchronization of the Fellowships first twenty minutes, called
Lord of the Weed - Sinnlos in Mittelerde(Senseless in Middle-earth), portrays the characters as highly drug addicted.
- Quickbeam and Bombadil,
the Lords of the Rhymes, mix Tolkiens fantasy world with hip-hop.
- Two New York City based authors, Jessica and Chris, parody Tolkiens work in combination with
Buffy the Vampire Slayerin Once More With Hobbits.
- Several former members of
Mystery Science Theater 3000created Edward the Lesswhich parodies the trilogy.
- MST3Ks
Michael J. Nelsonand Kevin Murphy)also recorded an audio commentary track mocking Peter Jacksons film adaptation of The Fellowship of the Ring for Nelsons RiffTraxservice. Unlike the other films featured on the service, it is a film that Nelson actually considered to be good.
- The first chapter of The Woad To Wuin by
Peter Davidis entitled Lord of the Thing. The Lord Of The... whatever, a transcribed electronic text version, written by the Tolkien fans of the rec.arts.books.tolkien newsgroup as a reply to those who ask where can they download an electronic copy of the book. It has lots of fan in-jokes, like whether Balrogs have wings or not, a long-standing debate in the Tolkien fandom. Flight of the Conchordsclaim that their parody Frodo was rejected as a theme song for Peter Jacksons movies. Incidentally, Bret McKenzie (one half of the band) played an elf in the Fellowship, and his character (now known as Figwit) has become an unusual web celebrity, attracting fan sitesand even a hate site. The Ring Thing, a Swiss parody of Peter Jacksons films. However it has received mixed reviews.
wikipedia:MADtvspoofed the series with The Lords of the Bling, with various actors/actresses portraying characters as Gandalf, Frodo, Legolas, etc. Kingdom O Magic, by Fergus McNeill. He became famous during the eighties for games such as Bored of the Rings (influenced by, but not adapted from, the Harvard Lampoon book) and The Boggit. Why cant they just lose the ring in the sink?, humour columnist Dave Barrys satire. Dead Ringers), BBC Radio/TV satirical comedy show regularly features Lord of the Rings-themed sketches, usually with the characters of Gandalf, Saruman and Frodo.
- Bobo, a very popular
Serbianvoice-over video on scene from the first film, which features Boromir and Frodo as gay lovers. It spawned many other voice-overs.
- British Comedy duo
wikipedia:French & Saundershave also satired and spoofed in detail Peter Jacksons The Fellowship of the Ring in a BBC 2002 Easter Special entitled The Egg.
- A parody entitled
teh l0rd of teh Ringz0rhas done the rounds of bulletin boards systems. Based on the Counter-Strikeindebted 1337 speak it retells scenes, primarily from the Peter Jackson films, in the style of a 1337 hax0r or online gamer.
- A Spanish voice-over video of Gollum debating about which is the best football (soccer) video game.
One Man Lord of the RingsA one man show by Charles Ross, reciting and parodying the three films in an hour.
- In another episode of
The Simpsons, Principal Skinnerannounced to Springfield Elementary School that they are going to have a school medieval festival. Class bully Nelsonexcitedly asks, You mean like The Lord of the Rings?!, and Skinner replies, No! Nothing like The Lord of the Rings! Note that readers dispute whether or not Middle-earth is medieval; the medieval look of the film trilogy is due to concept designer and book illustrator [John Howe](/wiki/John_Howe). REC Studios Fellowship of the RingA parody starring four people portraying multiple characters each and condensing the first third of the story to under a quarter of an hour. MTVproduced the wikipedia:Lord of the Piercing, a parody with Sarah Michelle Gellarabout the [Council of Elrond](/wiki/Council_of_Elrond), in which [Frodo](/wiki/Frodo_Baggins)uses the [One Ring](/wiki/One_Ring)in a piercing. The 4 minute episode comes as a [hidden extra](/wiki/Easter_Eggs_in_the_Lord_of_the_Rings_movies)in the first DVD of the 4-disc set of [The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring](/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_Fellowship_of_the_Ring).
[Fellowship! - The Musical Parody of The Fellowship of the Ring](/wiki/Fellowship_(play)), a musical stage production featuring nine performers each playing multiple characters.
- A Russified version of the film trilogy exists, featuring a voice-over translation of all 3 films. The author of the opus is a lieutenant of police by the name of
Dmitri Puchkov; unsurprisingly, his translation re-imagines the story as one of cops and robbers, oligarchs and the FSB (ex-KGB) chasing each other through the land of Honduras (the name of that particular country has in Russian peculiar connotations of being a very silly place off the edge of the world). The Rings significance is now not its inherent evil but its status as stolen property sought by its rightful (and horribly demented and criminal) owner, who raises in his native Mordovia vast Nazi-like armies (complete with German accents, courtesy of the translator) to reclaim it. The translation infuses the films with countless Russian pop culture jokes and allusions to Soviet anecdotes, movies, books and historical personages: for example, Legolas and Gimli speak in Estonian and Georgian accents respectively; [Théoden](/wiki/Th%C3%A9oden)becomes Boris Yeltsinand his affliction the consequence of alcoholism; and Gandalf is ? Major in the Honduras police force.
[Goblin](/wiki/Northern_Orcs) also put together a brand new parody soundtrack for the movies, featuring dozens of songs ranging from modern pop like Tatu, Leningad and Rammstein to old Soviet Communist anthems, with some songs by revered artists like Vladimir Vysotskyand Viktor Tsojsprinkled in. There are also some video jokes, such as the practically seamless addition of sunglasses to Lord Elrond (who, in this version, was Agent Smith in disguise) and the brief pan to gigantic statues of the South Park children done in white marble in Denethors halls. Commonly known as Goblins Translation, the parody established its author as a household name in Russia. Rove McManusand Peter Helliarhad a short sketch on Rove Liveof them dressed up as Frodo and Sam, calling each others names out.
- A critique of the
World Trade Organizationparodying The Lord of the Rings entitled The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring of Free Tradeis downloadable from San Francisco Indymedia [[1]]http://sf.indymedia.org/uploads/ringoffreetrade.mov
- In the MMORPG
Kingdom of Loathing, there is an adventure in the Itznotyerzitz Mine that has many references to the Mine from The Fellowship of the Ring, such as Speak Friend, and enter changed to Speak,Frat Boy, and enter.
- The Sprite Comic
Neglected Mario Characterscontains an adventure entitled The Lord of the Wings, which is loosely based on the plot of The Lord of the Rings. Here, the rings are replaced with buffalo wings.
- The All Saved Freak Band has an album called For Christians, Elves, and Lovers, memorializing Tolkiens death. They have one song called Mordor.
- On albinoblacksheep.com there is a Lord of the Rings rap title The Towers are da Playas including Orcs and Gollum. It is made using Flash.
Big Ideas VeggieTalesreleased a video entitled Lord of the Beans with plot, music and character similarities to The Lord of the Rings.
- Poorly translated (
Engrish) captions on Asian bootlegs led to articles on Fellowship of the Ring, and The Two Towers.
- Flash animation artist Legendary Frog made four movies based on the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit called
The One Ring To Rule Them All.
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