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Top 25 Bands With Songs Referencing JRR Tolkien

By Jason Fisher
Top 25 metal songs that reference JRR Tolkien songs

Last week we tackled the Top 10 bands with names taken from JRR Tolkien characters. This week we are tackling the Top 10 25 songs that reference JRR Tolkien's Middle Earth. This list started with over 100 bands and 350 songs as Tolkien is everywhere in metal.

Unleashed - We Must Join With Him

Amon Amarth - Amon Amarth

Abigor - Verwüstung/Invoke The Dark Age

Holocaust - The Forgotten Old Forest

Voivod - Polaroids

Cruachan - The Fall of Gondolin

Burzum - Burzum

Elvenking - Oakenshield

The Funeral Pyre - Isengard Unleashed

Usurper - The Oath Of Silence

Led Zeppelin - Ramble On

Lucifer's Hammer - The Dark Tower of Mordor

Nightwish - Elvenpath

Lorien - The Voice of Saruman

Behemoth - Forgotten Cult of Aldaron

Rotting Christ - The Nereid of Esgalduin

Cradle of Filth - An Enemy Led The Tempest

Gorgoroth - Gorgoroth

GWAR - Whargoul

3 Inches of Blood - Destroy the Orcs

Marduk - Those of the Unlight

Blind Guardian - Lord of the Rings

Summoning - Khazad Dúm

Battlelore - Of Orcs and Elves

Leonard Nimoy - The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins