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| The ''']''' ] writings of ] have had a profound and wide-ranging '''impact on ]'''. This is especially true for '']'', ever since its publication in the 1950s, but especially throughout the 1960s and 1970s, where young people embraced it as a ] saga, and its influence has been vastly extended in the present day, thanks to the live-action film trilogy by ]. Many of the following references are directly inspired by the latter films rather than the book. | |||
| ==References== | |||
| ===Movies, television, and radio=== | |||
| * The ''South Park'' episode "]" is a parody of the movie version of ''The Lord of the Rings''. | |||
| * An episode of ] had a parody of ] that had ''The Lord of the Rings'' done with celebrities including ]. | |||
| * In a more recent episode of ''The Simpsons'' Bart and Lisa defend a box fort from a rampaging army of brown shirt delivery men. The whole sequence draws many parallels with the battle to defend Gondor in the return of the King. The writers even go as far as to include a flying fell beast, similar to that riden by the Nazgûl. Throughout this whole sequence, the chorus section of "The Fields of Pelennor" of The Return of the King soundtrack can be heard. | |||
| * In the show '']'', episode 2.02 (Lord of the Three Ring Binder) spoofs ''The Lord of the Rings'', with Jack as Frodo (and Déagol, when Jack was in his College years). | |||
| * In the Fairly Oddparents, nine Nazgûl are shown outside Timmy's door to be his 'new babysitters.' | |||
| * An episode of '']'' did a parody of Lord of the Rings known as "Lords of the Bling" where ] played Gandalf and said, "We have to take the ring to Mordor, by the ]!" Frodo was now Froho. | |||
| *In the ] ] the 68th episode parodies the films with the cast donning similar rolls as they travel around the world they were transported to. | |||
| ===Music=== | |||
| * ]'s music: "]" (1968) is based on '']''. | |||
| * ] set most of the verse of the One Ring ("Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky...") to music as "Ring Thing" in ]'s second album, ''Balaklava'' (1968). | |||
| * ]'s music: "]" (1969) refers to ] and ] in ], "]" (1971) is named after Tolkien's ]. | |||
| * Swedish keyboard player ] recorded an entire ] titled ''The Lord of the Rings'' in 1972, which was performed mostly on electronic keyboard instruments. | |||
| *] musician and composer ] undertook 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 | |||
| * ]’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 German power metal band ] has a song called "Lord of the Rings" on the album '']'' (1991). On their '']'' (1992) there is a song called ''In the Forest - The Hobbit''. They also released an album based on ''The Silmarillon'' called '']'' (1998), including songs like ''The Curse of Fëanor'', and ''Into The Storm'', retelling the struggle ] endured when the ] were destroyed. Some of their other works also contain references to Tolkien's creations. | |||
| * All songs by the Finnish metal band ] are based on Middle Earth. | |||
| * Almost all songs by Austrian ] bands ] and Rivendell are based on Middle Earth. | |||
| * ] recorded the song "Lothlórien" in 1991 and also performed the songs "May It Be" and "Aníron" for the soundtrack of Peter Jackson's film of ''The Fellowship of the Ring''. | |||
| * The progressive rock group ] has 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 ] 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 ]. | |||
| * The music CD "Journey of the Ring" (2005) features an hour of music inspired by Tolkien's novel. The music follows the story chapter by chapter. Called "the unofficial sound track to the books" by fans. http://www.cdbaby.com/all/peters | |||
| ===Literature=== | |||
| * ]'s 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 ]'s emblem of the ] as the flag of the new nation he founds. | |||
| * ]'s novel '']'' features an encounter with a Gollum-like creature, which jumps on to the main character's boat and proclaims "It'ssss my birthday." ] then 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 ] and ]. There are also references to ''The Lord of the Rings'' in several of Stephen King's other novels (e.g. Insomnia, The Stand, etc.). This is most notable in his fantasy series ], which is based on the ] poem ''Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'', but severely influenced by ''Lord of the Rings''. | |||
| * The modern-era hero in ]'s '']'' (1999) views himself as a dwarf, his grandfather the ] as an elf, an ex-] as one of the race of Men, and refers to his nemesis (a psychotic lawyer) as "Gollum". He recognizes ] as a wizard and, true to form, Enoch appears in the ] as well. | |||
| * In ]'s novel '']'' a 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 ]'s return to ]. | |||
| * ] has an inn called "The Nine Rings" in '']'', 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 '']'' series, several people are named after places or people in ''The Lord of the Rings'', examples are a portrait in the Headmaster's Office, called Everard ], 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. | |||
| ===Games=== | |||
| ====Computer and video games==== | |||
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| ====Other games==== | |||
| *Several games have been based directly on ''The Lord of the Rings'' and related works, including, amongst many, ]'s ''War of the Ring'' (1977), ]' (ICE's) ] game (MERP, 1982-1999) and ] (MECCG, 1995-1999), the ''Lord of the Rings'' series of board games by ] (2000 onward), a variant of ] (2002) as well as ] (2001) made by ]. | |||
| * In 2003, ] released '']''. | |||
| *The ''Lord of the Rings'' books were one of the main original inspirations for the '']'' ], and hence continue to be a major influence on the entire field of role-playing and ] having fantasy epic themes. | |||
| * The Wargames Research Group set of fantasy miniatures rules, '']'' (HotT), was first published in 1991. | |||
| * Some of the ]'s ] factions relate to those found in ]'s writings. | |||
| * In the MMORPG World of Warcraft, one of the human male's jokes is a joking description of ''The Lord of The Rings'', except the One Ring is replaced by a bracelet and instead of Hobbits the main character is a gnome. | |||
| * Early iterations of the Japanese RPG series ] are inspired by Dungeons and Dragons and thus, indirectly, by ''The Lord of the Rings''. More directly, the games usually contain ''mithril'' armor and items (as early upgrades) that the player's party can buy or win. | |||
| ==Satire and parody based on ''The Lord of the Rings''== | |||
| * An internet-based ] community produced , a short animated parody. | |||
| * An independent film company in South Carolina released as a college humor project. | |||
| * A soft core ] comedy entitled "]". | |||
| * The ] satire '']'', and its prequel '']''. | |||
| * A little-known ] Radio series, '']'' (1980) attempted to parody heroic fantasy in the style of '']''. | |||
| * A German resynchronization of the ''Fellowship'''s first twenty minutes, called '''' (''"Senseless in Middle-earth"''), portrays the characters as highly drug addicted. | |||
| * Quickbeam and Bombadil, '''', mix Tolkien's fantasy world with hip-hop. | |||
| * Two New York City based authors, Jessica and Chris, parody Tolkien's work in combination with ] in ''''. | |||
| * Several former members of '']'' created '''' which parodies the trilogy. | |||
| * MST3K's ] and ] also recorded an audio commentary track mocking Peter Jackson's film adaptation of ''The Fellowship of the Ring'' for Nelson's ] service. 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 ] is entitled "Lord of the Thing". | |||
| * '''', 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; as well as many references to Communism and the overthrow of the rich. | |||
| * ] claim that their parody ''Frodo'' was rejected as a theme song for Peter Jackson's movies. Incidentally, Bret McKenzie (one half of the band) played an elf in the ''Fellowship'', and his character (now known as ]) has become an unusual web celebrity, attracting and even a . | |||
| * '''', a Swiss parody of Peter Jackson's films. However it has received mixed reviews. | |||
| * ]'s Lord of the Rings parodies The Feeble Shtick of Ka-Ching!, The Two+ Hours, and Rehash of the Thing. | |||
| * ] spoofed the series with ''The Lords of the Bling'', with various actors/actresses portraying characters as Gandalf, Frodo, Legolas, etc. | |||
| * '']'', 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''. | |||
| * '''', ] ] ]'s satire. | |||
| * '']'', 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 ] voice-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 ] have also satired and spoofed in detail Peter Jackson's ''The Fellowship of the Ring'' in a BBC 2002 Easter Special entitled "The Egg". | |||
| * A parody entitled '']'' has done the rounds of bulletin boards systems. Based on the ] indebted "]" 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. | |||
| * '''' A one man show by ], reciting and parodying the three films in an hour. | |||
| *In another episode of '']'', ] announced to Springfield Elementary School that they are going to have a school medieval festival. Class bully ] excitedly 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 ]. | |||
| * '''' A parody starring four people portraying multiple characters each and condensing the first third of the story to under a quarter of an hour. | |||
| * ] produced the ], a parody with ] about the ], in which ] uses the ] in a piercing. The 4 minute episode comes as a hidden extra in the first DVD of the 4-disc set of ]. | |||
| * '''', 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 ]; 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 Ring's 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; ] becomes ] and his affliction the consequence of alcoholism; and Gandalf is а Major in the Honduras police force. "]" 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 ] and ] sprinkled 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 Denethor's halls. Commonly known as "]", the parody established its author as a household name in Russia. | |||
| * ] and ] had a short sketch on ] of them dressed up as Frodo and Sam, calling each other's names out. | |||
| * A critique of the ] parodying ''The Lord of the Rings'' entitled '']'' is downloadable from ] Bay Area ] | |||
| *In the MMORPG ], 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 ] contains 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 Tolkien's 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. | |||
| * ]'s ] released a video entitled "]" with plot, music and character similarities to ''The Lord of the Rings''. | |||
| * Poorly translated (]) captions on Asian bootlegs led to articles on , and . | |||
| * A two-week spoof in the '']'' cartoon strip, where Monty seeks the "Lord of the Thing." | |||
| *] and ] created a parody of ''The Lord of the Rings'' on their sketch show '']''. They named the sketch ''''. | |||
| * A site online has recreated a good bit of the ], with promises of more to come, using ] and various other props. '''' | |||
| * A Chilean parody named ''El Señor de los Ladrillos'' (''Lord of the Bricks'' in English) uses Chilean pop culture and news references to parody the first half of the ] book. '''' | |||
| * In Roger Van Der Weide's Sonic Movie Madness series, Team Sonic's story is based on Lord of the Rings | |||
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