"Scan the horizon, the clouds take me higher,
I shall return from out of fire."
'The clouds take me higher' - meaning Frodo climbing Mount Doom.
'I shall return from out of the fire' - meaning Frodo WILL destroy the ring and WILL return home after conquering Sauron.
And like I said before, I know this song has nothing to do with LOTR, but listening to the song, it just gave me that impression and thoguh I'd share it :)
as an extremely long time Tolkien fan(/scholar i suppose), i had similar thoughts, with regard to the "all seeing eye" and "return out of the fire" lines, at any rate. given what P. Dianno has said, i seriously doubt that there is any intentional reference. remember that the metaphor of the phoenix and the image of the all seeing eye were/are prevalent in literature long before Tolkien wrote anything about them (and he founded much of his writing on such scraps of existing legend... though mostly Norse & Christian). The author says its about a bombing run,...
as an extremely long time Tolkien fan(/scholar i suppose), i had similar thoughts, with regard to the "all seeing eye" and "return out of the fire" lines, at any rate. given what P. Dianno has said, i seriously doubt that there is any intentional reference. remember that the metaphor of the phoenix and the image of the all seeing eye were/are prevalent in literature long before Tolkien wrote anything about them (and he founded much of his writing on such scraps of existing legend... though mostly Norse & Christian). The author says its about a bombing run, so the similarities are probably knitted together by our fertile minds.
And on top of taht -
"Scan the horizon, the clouds take me higher, I shall return from out of fire."
'The clouds take me higher' - meaning Frodo climbing Mount Doom.
'I shall return from out of the fire' - meaning Frodo WILL destroy the ring and WILL return home after conquering Sauron.
And like I said before, I know this song has nothing to do with LOTR, but listening to the song, it just gave me that impression and thoguh I'd share it :)
as an extremely long time Tolkien fan(/scholar i suppose), i had similar thoughts, with regard to the "all seeing eye" and "return out of the fire" lines, at any rate. given what P. Dianno has said, i seriously doubt that there is any intentional reference. remember that the metaphor of the phoenix and the image of the all seeing eye were/are prevalent in literature long before Tolkien wrote anything about them (and he founded much of his writing on such scraps of existing legend... though mostly Norse & Christian). The author says its about a bombing run,...
as an extremely long time Tolkien fan(/scholar i suppose), i had similar thoughts, with regard to the "all seeing eye" and "return out of the fire" lines, at any rate. given what P. Dianno has said, i seriously doubt that there is any intentional reference. remember that the metaphor of the phoenix and the image of the all seeing eye were/are prevalent in literature long before Tolkien wrote anything about them (and he founded much of his writing on such scraps of existing legend... though mostly Norse & Christian). The author says its about a bombing run, so the similarities are probably knitted together by our fertile minds.