<story><title>How Tolkien created Middle-earth</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/31/drawn-into-tolkiens-world-exhibition</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cocacola1</author><text>Entirely tangential, but the best album I&amp;#x27;ve heard is Music Inspired by The Lord of the Rings by Bo Hansson. Instrumental progressive rock that, at least for me, entirely evokes a fantasy-like feeling and might even be, dare I say, superior to Howard Shores&amp;#x27; score for the films.&lt;p&gt;Now that I think about it, Tolkien and works related to him seem to have set the bars for a few things - worldbuilding, fantasy literature, epic films, etc.; not to mention more than a few things that have been directly inspired by his works.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>8bitsrule</author><text>Didn&amp;#x27;t know of that! Sounds like it might be similar to 1979 album
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;The_Pentateuch_of_the_Cosmogony&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;The_Pentateuch_of_the_Cosmogon...&lt;/a&gt;. Two records of music by Dave Greenslade (w&amp;#x2F;Phil Collins) included a hardback book lavishly-illustrated by Patrick Woodroffe.&lt;p&gt;That production may have been encouraged by Jeff Wayne&amp;#x27;s 1978 &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Jeff_Wayne%27s_Musical_Version_of_The_War_of_the_Worlds&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Jeff_Wayne%27s_Musical_Version...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>How Tolkien created Middle-earth</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/31/drawn-into-tolkiens-world-exhibition</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cocacola1</author><text>Entirely tangential, but the best album I&amp;#x27;ve heard is Music Inspired by The Lord of the Rings by Bo Hansson. Instrumental progressive rock that, at least for me, entirely evokes a fantasy-like feeling and might even be, dare I say, superior to Howard Shores&amp;#x27; score for the films.&lt;p&gt;Now that I think about it, Tolkien and works related to him seem to have set the bars for a few things - worldbuilding, fantasy literature, epic films, etc.; not to mention more than a few things that have been directly inspired by his works.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ghostbrainalpha</author><text>Sounds a lot like The Grateful Dead trying to LOTR.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=rs0AmruS8Ro&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=rs0AmruS8Ro&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>