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| Led Zeppelin – Ramble On Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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I'm not saying that Plant wrote the song to specifically mirror that particular story, but the similarities between the story and the song are uncanny. Also, Plant is a huge LOTR fan (E! interviewed him outside the film's premiere, and he admitted to reading the series multiple times. |
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| Led Zeppelin – Ramble On Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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I'm pretty sure this song is about Aragorn (Strider) and the story is actually only covered in Appendix A of the LOTR. This song recounts a part of Aragorn's life that happened well before the LOTR begins, and just before the events recounted in The Hobbit. The song refers to Aragorn's unexpected re-union with Arwen (daughter of Elrond and Aragorn's true love) in Lothlorien. At the end of this chapter, Aragorn must decide whether to stay in Lothlorien and marry Arwen or leave the forest and pursue Gollum. in the appendiceed story, we learn that, just previously to Aragorn finding Arwen, Gandalf tells Aragorn that Gollum has the ring and is hiding on the outskirts of Mordor. He also tells him that Sauron is also looking for Gollum. He begs Aragorn to find Gollum before Sauron does (neither of them winds up finding Gollum and he escapes to the misty mountains). The lyrics "but gollum, and the evil one crept up and slipped away with her" does not mean that they literally kidnapped her, but that his duty to pursue Gollum, and to not let Sauron possess the One Ring, caused him to lose his true love. The choruses in the song also seem to support my theory because, as we learn in the LOTR, after Gollum slips through Aragorn's fingers in Mordor, he goes on a thirty year, middle-earth wide search to find his true love. |
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