: : I believe you're thinking of "Ramble On" from Led Zeppelin's 2nd album. The verse I remember is something like, "In the darkest lands of Mordor I met a girl but Gollum the evil one stole her away, away."

: : Zeppelin actually makes reference to Tolkien in a few other songs as well. I've read discussions of where "Stairway to Heaven" has such references but I cannot recall what they were.

: : Michael

: I saw, many years ago, a lyric/score book of all Led Zep's songs up to "In through the Out Door". And the spelling of the reference to Gollum was "Golem" but I reckon it was the publisher's proof readers being over zealous. Robert Plant is on record as being an ardent admirer of Tolkien's work. The track with the most overt references to Tolkien, in addition to "Ramble On", is "The Battle of Evermore" from the "Untitled", "IV" or "Four Symbols" album - (whichever title you prefer). It contains a line about "The Ring-wraiths riding " or something like that.

There are also Norwegian Satanist Death Metal bands who are inspired by Tolkien in their own twisted way, they call themselves by names like Grishnak (he went totally mad killed a couple of people and blew his own head off) and other Orc-names. However, let us not delve further into that, they are twisted- now I know the spokesman for the Church of Satan in Denmark (possibly the entire Scandinavia, he will not tell), he is actually a really nice person who distances himself from those psychopaths burning thousand-year-old wooden churches in Norway. He worships only himself while looking with contempt at the ten commandments!! he is actually nice- not very radical and very intelligent. Anyway, I am getting far afield, my mind has a tendency to wander. There is also some Irish (I believe) band that have actually recorded all Tolkien's songs, but you probably know that.