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    The Guardian review of RoP, Season 1

    Ouch The world’s most expensive show – which looked like an episode of Hollyoaks, only with woeful acting – was so inept that every episode left you sniggering https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/oct/17/now-its-over-lets-come-out-and-say-it-the-rings-of-power-was-a-
  2. Blind Guardian's 'The Tides of ⚔️War'

    Last year in September, Blind Guardian released a CD in issue 337 for Rock Hard Magazine (A German music magazine). Most of the CD was from a live show taken from Rock Hard Festival 2016, but the first track on the CD (The Tides of War) was a previously unreleased and unfinished track originally...
  3. a Tolkien 📊quiz from The Guardian

    The Guardian is a quality UK newspaper, and last year they produced a quiz on how well do you know the lands of Middle-earth http://www.theguardian.com/books/quiz/2013/mar/25/tolkien-day-landscapes-quiz
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    Blind Guardian's Nightfall album: Silmarillion insights?

    Blind Guardian's NiME as a gateway to deeper thoughts about the Silmarillion Hi, This would be my first post and I'm going to start with something quite 'heavy'. By heavy I don't just mean heavy metal.. I truly believe the album Nightfall in Middle Earth by the German Metal band Blind...
  5. Blind Guardian

    I was just looking through some old threads and saw this in someone's signature, and looked up some lyrics. I love metal, and didn't know about this band. Some of their songs are influenced by Tolkien's work. Does anyone know any other bands or groups that sing based on Tolkien's stuff...
  6. "Remember your guardian angel"

    Which are your impressions of these ideas (part of the letter #54, 08.01.1994)? Do they have any personal significance for you? I find them truly inspirational
  7. Who here thinks Blind Guardian is an awesome band?

    They're a European band. Kinda like heavy Metal in a way, but they're really freaking good. They sing alot about the Silmarillion and LotR. From their album "Nightfall in Middle-Earth", here's some songs I think are great: "Time Stands Still at the Iron Hill" (Song about Fingolfin...
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    The Guardian says "The Lord of the Rings is racist."

    Here is the article: http://film.guardian.co.uk/lordoftherings/news/0,11016,852217,00.html I was about to go on a long rant on why this article is packed with holes, but perhaps it would be more interesting to see what others have to say. Opinions?
  9. Blind Guardian LOTR 🎶music

    i was brousing mp3.com and found a band called Blind Guardian. some of there songs are about LotR and one is called "Lord of the Rings". the lyrics are cool so check them out: There are signs on the ring which make me feel so down there's one to enslave all rings to find them all in...
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