Although this web site is concerned primarily with Tolkien-inspired music, the search for Middle-earth references in songs inevitably leads to encounters with Tolkien-inspired band names and other marginalia. The discovery of such names might as well be documented. I have arranged this section more or less in the same format as the discography, boldfacing names that relate to Middle-earth. Band/album names already listed in the discography are not repeated here.

There are innumerable lacunae in this laundry list and very likely some errors as well. In many cases I am not even certain whether a given band has not recorded any Tolkien-inspired songs. If it can be shown that they have, I will naturally move them to the discography. If anyone can help fill in the blanks or offer corrections, please don't hesitate to e-mail me.

1420 (MILCUATROVEINTE) (Argentina) - prog

ACCURSED YEARS (UK) - black metal

ACID ICE FLOWS (USA) - darkwave/goth
project of Gollum
Dol Guldur (CDR 2001) [One Ring Records]
Angbad (CD 2003) [One Ring Records]
Utumno (CD 2005) [One Ring Records]

ADUNAKHOR (USA) - neofolk

AEGLOS (Spain) - ?

AERE AETERNUS (Italy) - dark ambient
Lammoth (demo ?)

AGARWAEN (Finland) - black metal

AGARWAEN (Switzerland) - black metal

AGARWAEN DAGORLAD (Mexico) - power metal

AGHAN AND THE PUKEL-MEN (Australia) - punk

AIGLOS (Serbia) - metal

AINUR (Brazil) - black metal

AINUR (Colombia) - prog power metal

AKALLABETH (Poland) - death metal

AKALLABETH (USA) - gothic doom metal

AMON DIN (UK) - space rock
early '70s project of John Lingwood, Dave Anderson, Huw Lloyd Langton and John Butler (ex-HAWKWIND/AMON DUUL)

AMON HEN (Hungary) - electro/grind/goth rock

AMON HEN (Spain) - gothic death metal [reformed as RUNIC]

AMON OLORIN FLUTES (USA) - native american flutes

AMON SUL (France) - black metal

ANARIŐN (Germany) - black metal

ANATHORN (Slovakia) - metal
Lorien (CD 2003)

ANCALAGON (France) – hardcore
Ancalagon (demo 1991)

ANCALAGON (France) – viking metal
First Age: Entering Legenda (CD 2002)

ANCALAGON (?) - recording label.

ANDUIN (?) - ?
project of Christian Alvestam et al

ANDUIN (USA) - electronic: ambient

ANGBAND (Chile) - black metal

ANGBAND (Iran) - power metal

ANGMAR (Finland) - black metal

ANGMAR (Sweden) - ?

ANGMAR (?) - experimental electronic [renamed GELGOLETH]

ANGMAR (?) - black metal zine

ANGRENOST (Portugal) – black metal

ANGRIST (Greece) - death metal

ANGRIST (Italy) - black metal

ANGRIST (Germany) - freestyle rock

ANGRIST LEGION (Indonesia) - black metal

ANIRON UNDOMIEL (USA) - acoustic

ANNATAR (Netherlands) - symphonic dark metal

ANNON VIN (Germany) - technical prog metal
A New Gate (CD 1996)

ANÔRIČN (France) - jazz
Sable Ou Alors (CD ?) [Collectif Ishtar]
La rčgle des 3 (CD ?) [Ektic]

AR-PHARAZON MUSIC (Australia) - rock

ARAGORN (?) - ? [traxinspace]

ARAGORN (UK) - metal
ARAGORN (South Africa) - metal [renamed STRYDER]

ARAGORN (Germany) - black metal

ARAGORN AND FRODO (USA) - hardcore

ARAGORN BALLROOM (USA) - concert hall

ARANRÚTH (Denmark) - black metal
project of Hugin (Alex Wieser, member of HROSSHARGRASNI)
Aranrúth (demo-CD 1998) [?]

ARATHORN (Germany) – symphonic black metal
Niemals Koroenender Als was Einst War (CD 1997) [Folter Records]

ARCANA LITURGIA (Italy) - electronic
Ars Moriendi (tape 1998) [self-released]
The release was dedicated to J.R.R. Tolkien.

ARGONATH (Argentina) - melodic death metal

THE ARTISTS FORMALLY KNOWN AS WITCH KING (USA) - metal

ARWEN (UK) - garage

ARWEN (Spain) - symphonic metal

ARWEN MOUNTAIN (USA) - bluegrass
Five of a kind (LP 1977) [Chelsea House]

ASGAROTH (Spain) – black metal

ASH NAZG (USA) - ?
The Lay of Leviathan (CDR 2003)

ASPHYXIA (?) - ?
project of Arathorn et al

ATHELAS (Japan) - rock

ATHELAS SINFONIETTA COPENHAGEN (Denmark) - classical

AVARI FIRIEL (France) - house

AVATHAR (Germany) - black metal

AVATHAR (UK) - black metal

AVATHAR (Venezuela) - metal

AVATHAR (Ireland) – black metal

AVATHAR (Norway) - black metal
Black Magician Kings (CD 1996) [?]
Chronicles Over Druig (demo 1997) [?]

AVATHAR RECORDS

B BOY BAGGINS (USA) -drum and bass, house, breakbeat, trance

BAG END
Recording studio in Alum Rock, Birmingham.

BAG END
Loudspeakers.

BAG END MUSIC
Recording label.

BAG END LIGHT SOUND
Recording equipment.

BAGGINS & FOP (?) - ?
Party Time (12" ?) [Union Jack/Crosstrax]

BAGSHOT ROW (USA) - rock'n'row [power pop]
"A band from Chicago, from the the mid 70's has reformed and is currently performing with all original members. The bass player (nicknamed Bilbo) was a huge fan of Tolkien and turned on a community to Middle Earth. He was once given an F in his freshman year in high school on a book report of The Hobbit. 'Book reports on nursery stories would not cut it in high school,' he was told. By his senior year, The Hobbit was required reading. This band, originally formed in the mid 70's, parted ways, but 26 years later, destined to reform, for it was written: One of the first things done in Hobbiton, even before removal of the Old Mill, was the clearing of the Hill and Bag End, and the restoration of Bagshot Row."

BAGSHOT ROW (USA) [Omaha, NE] - punk
"Bagshot Row is an early 90's style punk. Why this name? Because we're a bunch of nerds..."

BAGSHOT ROW (USA) [Utah] - punk

BAGSHOT ROW (USA) [St. Louis] - ?

BALLROGG (Norway) - jazz
Ballrogg (CD 2009) [Bolage]

BALROG (Sweden) - metal

BALROG (Belarus) - black metal

BALROG (Argentina) - thrash metal
Balrog (CD 2013) [self-released]

BALROGH RECORDS (Brazil) - recording label

BARAD-DUR (Germany) - black metal

LINARD BARDILL (?) - ?
Gimli Der Zwerg (CD ?) [?]

BARON WILDERNESS (?) - satire/parody
New LOTR Music CD

Weathertop Rock

The Green, Green Grass of Rivendell

Hey Big Spider

Dont Go Breaking my Horn - by Borimir

Oops, I hid it again - by Bilbo Baggins

You Shall Not Pass *itch - by Hot DAWGandalf

Temptation - Heaven 17 and Galadriel

Orc this Way - by Lurtz and The Fighting Urukhai

Everybody Hurts.. but it is not our choice, we must do our best - by Gandalf

The Final MountDoom - by Sam and Europe

Eowyn-d of Change - by Faramir and the Gondorians

Dont Let Poor Sam, Go Down To Bree - George Michael Delving

Ring of Fire - by Sauron

A Day in a Ranger - by Arwen

Balrog around the Clock - by Buddy Holly and Pals (Orcs mostly)

I Would Do Anything For Love, but I wont throw the ring into the fire - Frodo and Meatloaf

Rainy Days and Mordor Always Get Me Down - by Sam and The Carpenters

Regulators - by Witch King and the Ringwaiths (TM)

Sting - by Frodo and..... Sting

Ar-When I fall in Love - by Aragorn and the Rangers

Under Precioussss - By Queen, Bowie and Smeagol

THE BARROW DOWNS (Denmark) - ?
project of Simon M. Friborg
[releases unknown] [Aren Promotion Productions]

LEE BARRY (USA) - prog
Creatures of Hobbit (CD 1994) [?]

BELEGOST (USA) - black metal

BELEGOST (Poland) - folk metal

BELERIAND (Latvia) – ambient synth music

BELERIAND (Argentina) - ?

BELTHIL (Poland) - black metal

BEYOND THE GATES OF MORDOR (USA) - experimental

BILBO (Netherlands) - synth-pop

BILBO BAGGINS (UK?) - ?
Saturday Nite (single? 1974) [?]
It's a shame/Please Sir (single 1976) [Polydor Records]
Back Home/What's goin' on (single ?) [?]

BILBO BAGGINS (Scotland) - pop [renamed BILBO]

BILBO BAGGINS (?) – techno

BILBO BAGGINS (USA) - flute

BILBO BAGGINS (USA) - funk/punk

BILBO BAGGINS (Canada) - punk and indie rock covers

BILBO BAGGINS (Poland?) - ?
Impaled sodom (tape ?)
live 07.12.96r.Miedzychód (tape 1996)
live 05.12.97r.Miedzychód (tape 1997)

BLACK MORIA (Germany) - death metal

BLUE WIZARDS CULT (?) - satire/parody

Towers On Flame

NA-262

Golden Age of Byrnies

Fire of Secret Origin
Istari

Les Valar

Istari

Blue Wizards Cult

I Am The Tom You Warned Of

The Siege and Investiture of Denethor's Tower of the Watch

In The Presence Of A Further West

Shadowfax

Ring of Illusion

BOB AND THE HOBBITS (USA) - eclectic rock
project of Scott Taylor (AKA: HOUND)

BOMBADIL (UK) - prog [pseudonym of BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST]
Breathless/When The City Sleeps (45" 1972) [Harvest]

BOMBADIL (USA) - folk pop

BOMBADIL RECORDING STUDIO (USA) - black metal
Panama City Beach, Florida.

BOMBADILLO (USA) - indie rock festival

THE BOMBADILS (Canada) - folk

IAIN BOUD (New Zealand) - dance book
The Lord of the Ring Collection (?) [?]

BRAINDEAD (Switzerland) - metal
Aglarond (demo-CD 1997) [self-released]

BRANDYWINE BRIDGE (UK) - folk

CARACH ANGREN (Netherlands) - black metal

CARADHRAS (Germany) - [renamed DRACONIS SANGUIS]

CARCHAROTH (Sweden) - death metal

CARCHAROTH (Hungary) - black metal

CARCHAROTH (Spain) - black metal

CARCHAROTH (USA) - death metal
Death metal magazine.

SAGE CARSON & THE BLACK RIDERS (Germany) - ?

CELEBORN (Sweden) - metal
Metal North (CD 1993) [Massproduktion]

CLUB VALINOR (Croatia) - techno/rap/turntable

COBALT LONDON SMAUG (USA) - alternative

CREBAIN (Sweden) - ?

CULURIEN STRING QUARTET (USA) - classical

DAEDELOTH (Poland) - black metal

DAGORLAD (Belgium) - dark atmospheric metal

DAGORLAD (Finland) - folk

DAGORLAD STUDIOS (France) - recording studio

DARK AEGLOS SODOMIZATION (Poland) - black metal

DARK MORDOR (Slovak Republuc) - death metal

DEAD MORGOTH (Mexico) - metal

DEATH BEFORE SUNRISE (UK) - rock
Not All Who Wander Are Lost (CD 2009) [Casket Music]

DENETHOR (Netherlands) – black metal

DJ MELIAN (Spain) - electronic

DJ MORDOR (Spain) - electronic

DJ MORGOTH (Germany) - electronic

DI NAZGUL (Bulgaria) - black metal

DIMHOLT (Bulgaria) - black metal

DJ FRODO (Germany) - ?

DJ LUTHIEN (Switzerland) - electronic

DJ SMAUG (USA) - electronic

DOL AMROTH (Italy) - electronic: ambient
The First Lake (CD 2006) [Registrazioni e Suoni]

DOL GULDUR (Finland) - death metal

DOR DAEDELOTH (Netherlands) - metal

DOR DAEDELOTH (France) - black metal

DRAUG (Norway) - black metal

DRAUG (Sweden) - black metal

DRAUG (USA) - death metal

DRAUG (Unknown) - ambient black metal

DRAUGLUIN (USA) - black metal

DRAUGWATH (Russia) – black metal [renamed INTO THE PENTAGRAM]

DRENGIST (?) - webzine

DRUADÁN (Spain) - folk
Druadán (CD 2002) [La Voz De Galicia]

DUNEDAIN (Spain) - world/ethnic

DUNGEONS DEEP RECORDS (USA) - black metal

DUNGORTHEB (France) - death metal

DUNGORTHEB (Russia) - black metal

DUNHARROW MUSIC (Canada) - publishing and distribution label

DURANDAL (France) – white power metal

DURIN'S BANE (USA) - prog
project of Dr. William C. Russell et al

DURTHANG (Sweden) - black metal

DWALIN (Chile) – prog
The Green Book (CD 1999)

E'A'RENDIL (Japan) - metal

JULIA ECKLAR (USA) - filk
Brandywine (CD ?)

EDAIN (Czech Republic) - prog death metal

EDGE OF MIRKWOOD MUSIC (USA) - musical instrument repair

EDHELS (France) - symphonic prog
Apparently an attempt to pluralize Edhel ("Elf"). The correct plural would be Edhil (as in Ost-in-Edhil).

EITHEL SIRION (France) - black metal

EKKAIA (Spain?) - grindcore

EL PEQUEŃO SAURON (Spain) - rock

ELBERETH (Spain) – gothic doom metal
"...and Other Reasons" (CD 1995) [?]

ELDAR (Italy) - nationalist

ELEDHEL (Czech Republic) - black metal

ELENDIL (France) - indie rock
Chants de colza (CD 1998) [Memorial Records]

ELESSAR (USA) – metal
Defy the King (EP ?)

THE ELFSTONE (USA) - psychedelic
Louisiana Teardrops/Beat The Clock (single 1968) [World Pacific]

ELFSTONE (?) – fantasy/demo

ELFSTONE (USA) - rock
Story of Antavio (CD 2003) [self-released]

ELROND (Germany?) - ?

ELROND'S CUPBOARD (?) - mixed/eclectic, cutting edge grooves, electronic trip hop

ELROND'S HOUSE (Germany) - sound studio

ELWING (Greece) - power metal
Immortal Stories (CD 2002) [Cult Metal Classics]

EMERALD ROSE (USA) - celtic
Songs for the Night Sky (CD 2004) [self-released]
"This cd is a commemorative limited edition dedicated to the producers, cast and crew of Peter Jackson's stunning "Lord of the Rings" cinematic masterpiece. Emerald Rose is proud to provide entertainment for the onering.net at the "Return of the King" oscars' cast party, and to present this limited edition cd to party participants."

ENEDWAITH (?) - true dark metal

EOWYN (France) - irish music
project of Eric Lavarec, Gaëlle Lavarec, Sarah Groves, Erwann Jézéquel
Eowyn (CD ?) [Keltia Musique]

EOWYN (USA) - christian rock

EPHEL DUATH (Italy) - black metal
Opera (demo 1998) [self-released]
Phormula (CD 2000) [code666]

EPHEL DUATH (France) - ambient [now the TALIESANS BARDS ORDER]

ERECH (USA) - christian folk rock

ERED (Spain) - black metal

ERED (Belgium) - metal [formerly ERED LITHUI]

ERED LITHUI (Belgium) - black metal
ERED WETHRIN (USA) - black metal

ERIADOR RECORDS (USA) - early music
Recording label.

ERU N THE VALAR (USA) - goth

ESGAROTH (Greece) – black metal
Dark Passion/Kingdoms of a Darker Side (split CD 1998) [Sempiternal Productions]

ESGAROTH (Poland) - melodic doom/black metal
Certificate Of Death (demo 1997)

ESGAROTH (Norway) - black metal

ESGAROTH (Italy) - prog
project of Ivan Perugini

ESTEL (Ireland) - indie

ETERNAL HELCARAXE> (Ireland) - black metal
ETHIR ANDUIN (Russia) - doom metal
ETHRAID ENGRIN (Netherlands) - black metal
ETTENMOOR (Finland) - black metal
ETTENMOOR (Poland) - death metal
EVENDIM (?) - ?
project of Christian Alvestam et al
EVERMIND (Columbia) - dark goth metal
Inner Equillibrium (demo-CD 2001) [Debelis Records]
EVERMIND (Sweden) - euro/trance
EZGAROTH (Greece) - black metal
D.C.L.X.V.I.: The Order (CD ?) [?]
FACE (USA) - eclectic
Mirrormere (tape 1994) [Omegaverse]
FALLS OF RAUROS (USA) - black metal
FANGORN (Russia) - rock?
FANGORN (Sweden) - ?
project of Marcus Andersson
Platser Där Du Aldrig Varit (tape 1998) [self-released]
FANGORN AUDIO/VIDEO (Russia) - ?
Recording label?
FANGORN SOUND (USA) - ?
Theatrical sound design and composition team.
RICHARD & MIMI FARINA (USA) - folk
Reflections in a Crystal Wind (LP 1965) [Vanguard Records]
In the jacket notes, the artists write "What we'd like to do is thank [....] J.R.R. Tolkien for the flight of Frodo."
FËANOR (Germany) - melodic metal
FËANOR (France) - hard blues rock
FËANOR (Argentina) - metal
project of Gustavo Acosta et al
Esto Es Para Vos (CD 2001) [self-released]
FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (Italy) - metal
A Legend of the Elves (An Epic Rock Opera) (CD 2003)
FEN HOLLEN (USA) - prog folk-rock
Fen Hollen Sprouts (CD 1999?) [self-released]
FIST OF TULKAS (USA) - ?
FLAMES OF UDUN (Germany) - [renamed DRACONIS SANGUIS]
FLAMING DRAGONS OF MIDDLE EARTH (USA) - mud lightning metal
FOO FIGHTERS (USA) - alternative rock
More Maximum Foo Fighters: The Unauthorised Biography (CD 2005) [ORC]

The Road Goes Ever On [interview segment]
FOR MORDOR (USA) - weirdness
FORLORN (France) - black metal
Lathspell (cassette 2014) [Hypogea Malificare]
FORNOST (Germany) – black metal
project of Draug and Thauron
FREIE HORTE ALQUALONDE (Germany) - yiddish music
Lomir Sich Iberbetn (LP 1985) [Thorofon]
FRODE HOLM (Norway/USA) - ?
Frodo CPU (CD 2000) [CPU Productions]
FRODO (Afghanistan) - ?
FROGMORTON (UK) - folk rock
At Last (LP 1976) [Philips]
FUNERAL WINDS (Netherlands) – black metal
Gorgoroth
GALADHRIM (UK) - neofolk
GALADRIEL (Spain) - neo-prog
Muttered Promises From An Ageless Pond (LP 1988) [Mindchild Records]
Chasing The Dragonfly (CD 1992) [Muséa Records]
Mindscapers (CD 1997) [Muséa Records]
GALADRIEL (UK) - folk
Airborne (LP 1982) [?]
GALADRIEL (Spain) - power metal
GALADRIEL (France) - folk dance
GALADRIEL (Austria) – new age
project of Pippa Armstrong (associate of GANDALF)
GALADRIEL (Australia) - blues/psychedelic rock
Galadriel (LP 1971) [Polydor Records]
GALADRIEL (Italy) - folk
THE GALADRIEL ENSEMBLE (UK) - classical/contemporary flute and strings
GALVORN (Germany) - black metal
GALVORN (Bolivia) - black metal
GANDALF (USA) – psychedelic
Gandalf (LP 1968) [Capitol Records] Get It Here
GANDALF (Sweden) - psychedelic
Gandalf (LP 1977)
GANDALF (Finland) – death rock
Rock Hell (CD 2001) [Wicked World]
GANDALF AND THE DREAMERS (?) - ? [source]
GANDALF MURPHY AND THE SLAMBOVIAN CIRCUS OF DREAMS (USA) - folk
GANDALF'S GOODBYE (Switzerland) - pop
GATES OF MORIA (Germany) - death metal [renamed IRA TENAX]
GAURHOTH (UK) - black metal
GAURHOTH (Australia) - black metal
GAURHOTH (Canada) - black metal
GAVRHOTH (Italy) - black metal
GHALADRIEL (Spain) - metal [now IN PENA]
GIGOLO AUNTS () -
The One Before Last (CD 2000) [Bittersweet Records]

Sulk with Me
["This is the first song Fred ever played with us. We recorded it several different times, but this version has the best energy. A different version (featuring Jon's 'Middle Earth' guitar solo."]
GILRAIN (Germany) - folk rock
GILTONIEL (?) – prog rock
GIMLI AND GLOIN (UK) - folk
GIMLI BALROG (Sweden) - black metal
GLAM GORTHAD (Germany) - black metal
GLAMDRING (USA) - christian black metal
GLOOMY GRIM (Finland) - symphonic black metal
project of Morgoth et al
GOLLUM (USA) - hard rock/psychedelic
Desert Heat/Prayer Of Despair (45" 1974) [Kiderian Records Productions]
GOLLUM (USA) - aggressive music
Promise of Nightfall (CD ?) [?]
GOLLUM (Sweden) - black metal
THE GOLLUM EXPERIENCE XD (Australia) - black metal
GOLLUM FRIENDS (Spain) - fusión/mestizo
Nueva Teoria de la Comunicacion (demo 1994)[?]
La maleta del Fugitivo (CD 1998) [Tralla Records]
GONDOLIN (Germany) - multimedia opera
project of Frank Niehusmann, Helge Haas and Jo WermterADVENT (Italy) - black metal

GONDOLIN (Portugal) - electronic
Vil Machine (CD 2003)[Corroios/Floyd Records]
GONDOLIN (Poland) - rock/metal
Webzine
GONDOLIN STUDIO (?) - ?
GONTYNA KRY (Poland) - aryan black metal
project of Thargelion et al [or perhaps this name is meant to recall the Greek month of the same name]
GORBALROG (Germany) – black metal
Dor Firn-i-Guinar (demo 1995) [self-released]
Nebelwald ["Mirkwood"?] (demo 1996) [self-released]
Untergang (CD 1999) [?]
GORTHAUR (Germany) black metal
To Conquer Middle-Earth (demo 2003)
GORTHAUR (Spain) – black metal
GORTHAUR (Poland) - death metal
GORTHAUR'S WRATH (Croatia/Germany) - black metal
GOTHMOG (Austria) – black space metal
We Fuck Your Brain (tape 1988) [self-released]
Fat Moon Engine (tape 1989) [self-released]
Melodius Volumeus Maximus (demo 1991) [self-released]
Cosmic Brain Strip (demo 1990) [self-released]
Stardust Go (demo 1990) [self-released]
Void (CD 1994) [Dark Matter Records]
Killa Ass (CD 1995) [Dark Matter Records]
GOTHMOG (Norway) - nazi black metal
GOTHMOG (USA?) - power metal?
GRAY HAVEN (USA) - rock
Southern Sky (CD 2004) [Mithlandriel Music]
GREY HAVENS RECORDS (?) -
Used record shop.
GREYFLOOD (?) - ?
GROND (Poland) - medieval/keyboard music
GROND (Sweden) - black metal
GROND (Germany) - back metal
Winterkrieger (CD 2000)
GROND (Finland) - black metal
Massacre (demo 1998)
GUARDIAN OF MINAS TIRITH (USA) - bluegrass
GURTHANG (Belgium) - eclectic barbarian metal [formerly ECLIPTICA]
The Avenger (demo-CDR 2001)
Gurthang Live (tape 2002) [Christcrusher Productions]
The Irony of Death (CD forthcoming)
THE HAIRY LEGGED LENTIL EATERS (South Africa) - rock, barn-dance & folk
[title of release unknown] (CD ?) [3rd Ear Music]
HALFLING THIEF (Greece) - medieval/folk/epic black metal
The Legend of the Hidden Gem (demo-CD 1998) [self-released]
THE HALFLINGS (USA) - punk
HALL OF MANDOS (Finland) - black metal
PEGGY HAMILTON (USA) - dance songs
The Middle Earth Collection (dance book 2000) [Royal Scottish Country Dance Society]

Around the Party Tree

Bombadil, Maggot and Mushrooms

Brandywine Bridge

The Cat on the Fiddle

The Entwives

Evenstar

Galadriel's Mirror

The Green Dragon

The Lady of Lothlorien

The River Woman's Daughter

Rosie Cotton

A Shieldmaiden of the Rohirrim
HARADWAITH (Belgium) - melodic death metal
HARADWAITH (Germany) - black metal
THE HEAD STOPS (Italy) - goth [formerly EPHEL DŮATH]
HELCARAXE (Canada) - grim black art
Grond - Cold Northern Epochs (demo ?) [?]
HELEVORN (Spain) - gothic doom metal
Prelude (demo-CD 2000) [self-released]
HELM'S DEEP (USA) - alternative christian
HELMS DEEP (USA) - black metal
The Beginning (demo ?)
HELMS DEEP (Canada) - melodic hard rock
HELMS DEEP (Ireland) - rock
project of Joyce et al
BILL HICKS (USA) - stand-up comedy
Live In Brighton (CD ?) [bootleg]

I'm Bilbo Hicks
HINI QUENDI (France) - pop
HIPPY_HIPPY_SHAKES (USA) - weirdness
Smeagol (CD 2007)
HIRILORN (France) - black metal
HOBBIT (USA) - recording label
HOBBIT (UK) - vocal percussion
THE HOBBIT (USA) - garage
[mid-'60s Phoenix, AZ, band]
THE HOBBITS (UK) - ?
project of Mark Rae et al
THE HOBBITS (Canada) - folk trio
project of Stanley Allison Rogers, Terri Olenick and Nigel Russell
HOBBITS IN SPACE (Netherlands) - ?
THE HOBBITS OF OLAF (UK) - prog cover
HOUSE OF ELROND (?) - ?
Recording label.
THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR (USA) - metal
The Lidless Eye (LP ?) [Magister Ludi]
IF SAURON WON THE WAR (USA) - experimental
ILLUIN (USA) - hardcore
project of Reverend Skippy Colon
IMLAD MORGUL (USA) - metal
INFERNUM (Poland) - nazi black metal
Taur-nu-Fuin (CD 1996) [Astral Wings]
INFORMATION SOCIETY (USA) - synth-pop
project of Kurt Valaquen[yar] et al
IQUISTA FÍRIEL (Czech Republic) - doom metal
ISENGARD (USA) - prog metal
We Destruct the World (CD 1998) [Etched in Stone Records]
ISENGARD (Poland) - [renamed EASTCLAN]
Label/distro of Rob Darken (member of GRAVELAND).
ISENNGARD (Mexico) - darkwave
Nothing (CD 2001)
Nocturne Intentions (CD 2001)
ISIL SILMARIL (Taiwan) - electronic: symphonic
ISILDUR (Sweden) - black metal
Isildur (7" 1997) [WSR-records]
ISTARI LASTERFAHRER (Germany) - hardcore
ISTARI RHYTHM ENSEMBLE (USA) - world percussion
project of Ed Contreras and Chad Johnson
Istari (CD 2008) [Chadzillamusic]
ITHIL MORWEN (Italy) - neofolk
KHAZAD-DHUM (?) - black metal
Blackest (CD 1996) [Mind Art Productions]
KHAZAD DOOM (USA) – rock
KHAZAD-DUM (Brazil) - black metal
KHAZAD-DUM (?) - trance [also spelled KHAZAD DHUN]
Come Together (12" 1998) [Time Unlimited]
KHAZAD-DUM (Germany) - ?
Side label of CCP Records.
KHAZAD-DŰM STUDIOS (Spain) - black metal
KICK THE HOBBIT STRING BAND (USA) - eclectic
KING THEODEN (USA) - punk
KINGSFOIL (USA) - acoustic rock
LADY UNDOMIEL (Chile) - vocal
LAMMOTH (?) - black metal
LATHSPELL (Finland) - black metal
LAURELIN (USA) - christian metal/hardcore
member connection to STAR OF EARENDIL
LAURELIN MUSIC (USA) - folk
LAURELIN STRINGS (Scotland) - string quartet
LEGION OF MORGOTH (Mexico) - metal
LEMBAS (UK) - ?
Lembas (CD ?) [self-released]
LETHALECLYPSE (USA) - electronic: trance
Smaug Factor (CD 2008)
LOKI AND LEGOLAS (?) - ?
LONEWOLVES (UK) - hardcore
Carcaroth (CD 2009) [Thirty Days Of Night Records]
LORD OF THE RINGS (Italy) - electronic: techno
The Apparent (12" 1995) [Out Of Orbit]
THE LORD OF THE RINGS COLLECTION (NZ) - traditional dance music
project of Iain Boyd
Dance arrangements for LotR themes.
LORIAN (Germany) - prog
LORIEN (Italy) - nationalist music archive
LORIEN (Italy) - prog
LORIEN (Italy) - piano
LORIEN (UK) – ?
LORIEN (?) - rock
LORIEN (USA) – symphonic rock
LORIEN (Czech Republic) – folk rock
LORIEN (Poland) - gothic rock
Lorien (demo 1996) [self-released]
Lothlorien (CD 1998) [Venture Beyond Records]
LÓRIEN (?) - pop rock
Somnis immortals (CD 1998) [Dindi Records]
LORIEN (UK) - alternative
LORIEN (USA) - death metal
LORIEN (USA) - rock
LORIEN (USA) - prog
LORIEN (USA) - indie
LORIEN (USA) - indie
LÓRIEN PATTON (USA) - acoustic
LORIEN'S FALL (USA) - rock
LÖRIHEN (Argentina) - metal
LOTH LORIEN (Italy) - rock [HOT LORIEN]
LOTHLORIEN (Sweden) – melodic black metal
LOTHLORIEN (Sweden) - power metal
The Primal Event (CD 1998) [Black Mark Productions]
LOTHLORIEN (Italy) – prog
Il sale sulla coda (CD 1998) [Lizard]
LOTHLORIEN (Australia) - black metal [renamed BLOOD WITCH]
LOTHLORIEN (USA) - black metal
LOTHLORIEN (USA) - folk
LOTHLORIEN (Germany) - eclectic rock
LOTHLÓRIEN (NZ) - celtic
LOTHLORIEN (USA) - world
Lothlorien (LP 1980)
Spaces (LP 1983)
LOTHRON (Germany) - black metal
LUGBURZ (Belgium) - black/death metal support site
LUGBURZ (Germany) - death metal
LUGBURZ (USA) - black metal
LUMMEN (Brazil) - prog
LUTHIEN (Columbia) - rock
LUTHIEN (Italy) - metal
LUTHIEN (Germany) - death metal
LUTHIEN (Australia) - electronic
LUTHIEN (?) - power metal
LUTHIEN (USA) - black metal
LUTHIEN (USA) - celtic folk
MAEGLIN (Germany) - ?
MALLORN (Netherlands) - hardcore
MANDOS (Germany) - black metal
MANWE (Russia) - eclectic
project of Alexander Matchugovsky
MARILLION (UK) – art rock
Originally SILMARILLION, but forced to change for reasons of copyright.
MEDIUM AVATHAR (Spain) - metal
MELKOR (Argentina) – thrash metal?
MELKOR (UK) - death metal
MELKOR (USA) - black metal
MELKOR (Croatia) - black metal
MELKOR (Germany) - black metal
MELKOR (Spain) - hip hop
MELKOR (Switzerland) - black metal
MELKOR (France) - metal
MELKOR'S DISHARMONY (Netherlands) - metal
MELKOR'S MACHINERY (Switzerland) - industrial
MELIAN (?) - ?
Melian (CD 2000)
MELIAN (Argentina) - metal
MELIAN (Switzerland) - rock
MELIAN (USA) - rock
THE MEN OF WESTERNESSE (?) - ?
MENEGROTH (?) - black metal
METALHEAD (Poland) - speed metal
The Iron Hills (demo 1999) [?]
METAZOG (USA) - death metal
Arresto Crebain (CD 2015) [self-released]
METHEDRAS (Italy) - thrash metal
THE MEWLIPS (Finland) – filk?
MIDDLE EARTH (USA) - rock
Former name of BOSTON.
MIDDLE-EARTH (USA) - indie rock
MIDDLE EARTH (USA) - psychedelic
Bitter Sweet/About You (45" 1966) [Mutual]
MIDDLE EARTH (USA) - punk [fictional band]
Hotrock Surfer (CD ?)
MIDDLE EARTH (South Africa) - celtic
MIDDLE EARTH (USA) - psychedelic
MIDDLE EARTH (UK) - rock
MIDDLE EARTH (USA) - ?
project of Matt Silbert et al
MIDDLE EARTH (?) - ?
project of Strangio John et al
MIDDLE EARTH (?) - ?
World Jam - Wild Side (comp CD ?) [?]

Look Around
MIDDLE EARTH (USA) - rock
project of Dean Gittings, John Solinski et al
MIDDLE EARTH (UK)
Recording label "Named after the 60's underground club we went to at Covent Garden and the Roundhouse across the road (showing our age!), because we saw lots of psychedelic similarities."
MIDDLE EARTH & AXE (UK) - psychedelic
Middle Earth & Axe (1969-1974) (LP ?) [Kissing Spell Records]
Side 1 is a 4-track demo from '69 by middle earth. Side 2 has 4 tracks from '74 by Axe plus 2 tracks by artists unknown from '71. Includes a version of spirits "i got a line you".
MIDDLE EARTH BAND (USA) - middle eastern fusion
MIDDLE EARTH CHAMBER ENSEMBLE (USA) - folk
project of Beth Leibowitz, John Laskey, Bill Thompson and Mike Sakarias
MIDDLE-EARTH ENSEMBLE (USA) - middle eastern
Middle-Earth Ensemble (CD 2004)
MIDDLE EARTH FESTIVAL (Denmark) - psychedelic
MIDDLE EARTH MOODS & SAGA SOUNDS (Denmark) - early music
project of Miriam Andersén and Poul Hřxbro
MIDDLE EARTH MUSIC (Australia) - band promoters
MIDDLE EARTH MUSIC HALL (USA) - performance venue
MIDDLE EARTH ORCHESTRA (?) - rock
Earthed (comp-LP 1970) [Middle Earth Records]
Living in the Past [Jethro Tull cover]
MIDDLE EARTH PRODUCTIONS (USA) - hip hop
MIDDLE-EARTH REBIRTH (Australia) - folk rock blues
MIDDLE EARTH RECORDS (USA) - record store in Downy, CA
MIDDLE EARTH STUDIO (USA) - recording studio in Lafayette, IN
MIDDLE EARTH STUDIOS (USA) - recording studio in Farmington Hills, MI
MINAS ANOR (Switzerland) - black metal
MINAS MORGUL (Russia) - doom metal [renamed OKTAGON]
MINAS MORGUL (Belarus) - death metal
"It should be mentioned that all band's members were a great fans of Tolkien and this is reflected in the lyrics of their songs. Nearly all of them touch the theme of Fantasy worlds or sometimes Scandinavian Heroic epos, creating a wonderful atmosphere."
MINAS MORGUL (Germany) - metal
MINAS MORGUL (Ukraine) - death metal
MINAS TIRITH (USA) - black metal
MINAS TIRITH (Sweden) - prog
project of Svetlan Raaket et al
MINAS TIRITH (Norway) - metal
Mythology (CD 1993) [?]
The Art Of Becoming (CD 1996) [Art Productions]
...Demons Are Forever (CD 1998) [FaceFront]
MINAS TIRITH (Norway) - black metal
project of Gonde (Frode Forsmo), Terje Krĺbřl et al
MINAS TIRITH (?) - prog?
project of Rudo Jockin et al
MINAS TIRITH (Italy) - rock
MINAS TIRITH (Netherlands) – metal
MINAS TIRITH (USA) – ?
Minas Tirith Vol. One (?) [?]
MINAS TIRITH (USA) - rock
MINAS TIRITH (USA) - prog
MINAS TIRITH (Czech Republic) - metal
MINAS TIRITH (Italy) - electronic: symphonic
MINAS TIRITH (UK) - prog
MINAS TIRITH (Belgium) - black metal
MINES OF MORIA (USA) - doom metal
MINES OF MORIA (USA) - grindcore
MIRKWOOD (UK) – prog underground
Mirkwood (LP 1973) [Flams Ltd.]
MIRKWOOD (USA) - psy-folk
project of Nick Bensen, Mozart Rottweiler et al
MIRKWOOD (Austria) – ritual
solo project of Silenius (member of ABIGOR and SUMMONING)
MIRKWOOD (USA) - college rock
Ionic Spring Sampler (CD ) [Ionic Records]
MIRKWOOD (USA) - acoustic
MIRKWOOD (USA) - punk
MIRKWOOD (UK) - rock
MIRKWOOD (USA) - acoustic
MIRKWOOD (USA) - punk
MIRKWOOD (USA) - black metal
MIRKWOOD CONVENTION (USA) - ?
MIRKWOOD SLIP (USA) - rock
MITHRANDIR (USA) – symphonic prog
For You The Old Women (LP 1976) [self-released]
MISTER UNDERHILL (USA) - hard rock
MR. UNDERHILL (Canada) - psychedelic
MR. UNDERHILL (USA) - acoustic rock
MITHRANDIR (UK) - metal
Magick (7" 1982) [New Leaf]
Dreamers of fortune/After tomorrow (7" 1982) [SVC]
MITHRANDIR (UK) - metal
MITHRANDIR (Sweden) – pagan black metal
MITHRANDIR (Venezuela) - alternative metal
MITHRANDIR (Austria) - metal
MITHRIL (USA) - celtic
MITHRIL (Germany) - thrash metal
MITHRIL (Dominican Republic) - prog metal
MITHRIL (NZ) - prog metal
MITHRIL (Italy) - metal
MITHRIL (USA) - indie
MITHRIL (Sweden) - prog metal
MITHRIL (Spain) - metal
MITHRIL (?) - ?
project of Billy Zoom et al
MITHRIL (Belgium) - ?
MITHRIL (Turkey) - metal
MITHRIL FORCE (USA) - metal
MITHRIL ON FIRE (Italy) - metal
MITHRIL SWORD (Spain) - metal
MOR DAGOR (Germany) - black metal
MORANNON (Germany) - black metal
MORANNON (Sweden) - black metal
Uruloki (spilt-demo 1997)
MORDAEHOTH (?) - black metal
project of Draugluin et al
MORDOR (UK) - metal
MORDOR (Spain) - thrash metal
MORDOR (USA) - metal
MORDOR (Mexico) - metal
MORDOR (USA) - metal
MORDOR (USA) - black metal
MORDOR (USA) - metal
MORDOR (?) - ? [renamed FORGOTTEN WOODS]
MORDOR (Germany) - ?
Mordor (LP 1986) [?]
MORDOR (Germany) - metal
MORDOR (Poland) - prog metal
The Earth (CD 1996) [Ars Mundi]
MORDOR (Poland) – symphonic doom/death metal
"Prayer to..." (CD 1997) [Arctic Serenades]
MORDOR (Denmark) - metal [renamed EXMORTEM]
MORDOR (Argentina) - metal [renamed AZEROTH]
MÖRDOR (Spain) - rock [renamed ZENZAR]
MORDOR (Spain) - ?
MORDOR (Spain) - ?
MORDOR (Russia?) - ?
MORDOR (USA) - metal
MORDOR (Germany) - black/death metal magazine
MORDOR (Poland) - hip hop
MORDOR (Indonesia) - death metal
MORDOR METAL (UK) - eclectic
MORDOR PRODUCTION (France) - ?
MORDOR RADIO (Mexico) - metal
MORDOR RECORDS (Russia) -
MORDOR RECORDS (USA) - hardcore
MORDOR RUIDO (Spain) - hardcore
MORDOR STUDIOS (Norway?) - ?
MORDOR'S CHILDREN (Norway) - acoustic black metal
MORGAI (Belgium) - black metal
MORGOTH (Netherlands) - electronic
MORGOTH (Norway) - [renamed UTUMNO]
MORGOTH (Norway) - black metal
MORGOTH (Italy) -gothic electronic
MORGOTH (USA) - black metal
MORGOTH (USA) - black metal
MORGOTH (Brazil) - electronic: trance
MORGOTH (Nepal) - black metal
MORGÖTH (Germany) - death metal [renamed FLESHCRAWL]
MORGOTH KULTUS (Denmark) - black metal
MORGOTH1986 (South Africa) - metal
MORGOTH SORROW (France) - metal
MORGOTH'S CALL (Spain) - ambient black metal
MORGOTH'S FINAL BATTLE (USA) - ska
MORGUL (Norway) – black metal
MORGUL (Switzerland) - black metal
MORGUL (Norway) - black metal
MORGUL (Belgium) - experimental
MORGUL (USA) - dark ambient
MORGUL (USA) - black metal
MORGUL (Brazil) - black metal
MORGUL (UK) - death metal
MORGUL (Mexico) - black metal
MORGUL (Netherlands) - post punk
MORIA (Algeria) - black metal
MORIA (Bulgaria) - black metal
MORIA (Canada) - prog metal
MORIA (Ecuador) - death metal
MORIA (Indonesia) - grindcore
MORIA (Sweden) - thrash metal [renamed DYNAMIC]
MORIA (Ukraine) - thrash metal
MORIA (USA) - deathcore
MORIA (Canada) - death metal
MORIA (Brazil) - metal
MORIA (France) - trip hop
MORIA (Former Yugoslavia) - alternative rock
MORIA (USA) - techno
MORIA (USA) - rock
MORIA (USA) - metal
MORIA (Germany) - hardfolk
MORIA FALLS (UK) – neo-prog
MORIA (KHAZAD-DŰM) (USA) - ska
MORIA RECORDS (Brazil) - metal recording label
MORIQUENDI (Argentina) - symphonic metal
MORIQUENDI (Poland) - rock
MORMEGIL (USA) - thrash metal
MORMEGIL (Venezuela) - metal
MORN TAWAR (Germany) - nazi black metal
project of Morgoth, member of RUNEBLUT
MORNA MORGUL (Italy) - ambient black metal
MORNINGSTAR (Finland) – black metal
Rivendell (CD 1995) [MoonLight Records]
MORTHIRIM (Sweden) - black metal
Morthirim (CD 1998) [?]
MORTHOND (USA) - ?
MORWEN (Germany) - metal
Morwen (CD 1997) [Brighten Music]
MORWEN (Argentina) - metal
MORWEN (USA) - alternative rock
MORWEN ANCALIME (Canada) - vocal
MOUNT DOOM (UK) - death metal
THE MOUNT DOOM (USA) - doom metal
MUMAKIL (Switzerland) - hardcore
MUNDO NARGOTHROND (?) - band promotion site

MYRKVID (Norway) – black metal [formerly GOTHMOG]

MYRKSKOG (Norway) - black metal

NAHAR (France) - black metal

NAN CURUNIR STUDIOS (?) - recording studio

NAN DUNGORTHEB (Germany) - black metal

NAN ELMOTH (Poland) - ?

NANTATHREN (Switzerland) - celtic
There and Back Again (CD 2004) [self-released]

NARBELETH (Sweden) - psychedelic

NARBELETH (Germany) - metal

NARBELETH (Germany) - black metal

NARCHOST (USA) - black metal

NARCHOST (Czech Republic) - black thrash metal

NARGATHROND (Russia) – dark ambient

NARGOTHROND (Greece) - black metal

NARGOTHROND (Iceland) - black metal

NARGOTHROND (UK) - industrial/folk noir [renamed ALBERICH]

NARGOTHROND (USA) - black metal [renamed NAUGLATH]

NAROG (Australia) - black metal

NARSIL (USA) - metal

NARSIL (Italy) - rock

NARSIL (USA) - death metal

NARSIL (India) - death metal

NARSIL (Croatia) - metal

NARSIL (USA) - black metal

NARSIL (Germany) - pagan metal

NARSIL HEIL (USA) - metal

NARSILION (USA) - death metal
Narsilion (demo-CDR 2001) [self-released]

NARSILION (Japan) - hard melodic prog

NAUGRIM (Germany) - black metal

NAZHGUL (Sweden) – black metal
project of Gorthaur et al

NAZGŰL (USA) - metal
Hot Wind out of Mordor (LP 19??)
NazgűL (LP 19??)
The band and album appearing in Geroge R.R. Martin's book, The Armageddon Rag (New York: Poseidon Press, 1983) "…had a kind of Tolkienesque cover, hobbits cringing in the pastel underbrush while volcanoes belched red fire in the distance and the dark riders wheeled above on their scaly winged steeds." P. 17

NAZGUL (?) - metal
Under Blood Red Eyes (demo ?) [?]

NAZGUL (NZ) - ?
Good Demons (12" EP 1987) [?]

NAZGUL (UK) - rock

NAZGUL (UK?) - goth/industrial/electronic/avant?
Habitual (12" 2001) [?]

NAZGUL (USA) - rock [now the PETE KELLY BAND]

NAZGUL (?) - black metal [now SAMAIN]

NAZGUL (Spain) – nazi black metal

NAZGŰL (Spain) - epic rock

NAZGUL (Columbia) - black metal

NAZGUL (Slovenia) - thrash metal [renamed NECROTIC]

NAZGUL (USA) - death metal

NAZGUL (Spain) - metal

NAZGUL (USA) - hardcore

NAZGUL (USA) - black metal

NAZGUL (USA) - grindcore

NAZGUL (USA) - black metal

NAZGUL (?) - ?
Ibiza Chill Mix: Night & Day (2-CD 2001) [Chill Out]

Distant Voices (?) [?]

NAZGUL (France) - black metal magazine

NĂZGÜL (Peru) - metal

NAZXUL (Australia) – black metal

NELDORETH (Croatia) - black metal

NELDORETH (USA) - black metal

NIENNA (Spain) - hip hop

NIENNA (France) - celtic

NIENNA (Chile) - metal

NIENOR (Czech Republic) - black metal

NIGHTFALL IN METAL EARTH (France) - metal webzine

NIMBRETHIL (Belgium) - folk metal

NIMBRETHIL (Czech Republic) - experimental neofolk

NIMLOTH (Columbia) - metal

NINIEL (Italy) - hip hop

NINIEL (Germany) - folk rock

NIRNAETH (Poland) – dark ambient
Opus Nirnaeth (demo 1995)
Haudh' En' Nirnaeth (CD 1996)
Nirnaeth Arnoediad (CD 2000)

NIRNAETH (Italy) - alternative prog

NIRNAETH (Italy) - thrash metal

NUMENOR (Mexico) - power metal

NUMENOR (France) - black metal

NUMENOREAN (Italy) - metal

NUMENOREAN MUSIC (USA) - soundtrack label
Subsidiary of NUMENOREAN FILMS.

NURN (Italy) - black metal

NURN (Norway) - black metal

NURNEN (Germany) - black metal

OAKEN SHIELD (France) - black metal label

OAKENSHIELD (UK) - folk

OAKENSHIELD (Germany) - folk metal

OATH OF CIRION (Finland) – symphonic fantasy metal

OH SO COOL NAZGUL (USA) - 2-step

OHTAR (Poland) - nazi black metal

OLD MAN WILLOW (USA) - acoustic

OLD MORGUL (Finland) – black metal

MIKE OLDFIELD (Ireland) – pop
Amarok (CD 1990) [Virgin Records]
Liner notes mention a "Glorfindel guitar" as one of the instruments used to perform the songs on this album.

OLOG-HAI (Finland) - black metal

OLORIN (Greece) - rock

ON THE SHORES OF VALINOR (USA) - christian black metal

ON TRIAL (Denmark) - rock
"Our music has nothing whatsoever to do with tolkien, but our guitarist the Hobbit actually looks like one...

ONCE NAZGUL (Australia) - alternative

ORCRIST (UK) - rock

ORCRIST (USA?) - black metal

ORCRIST (USA?) - prog

ORCRIST (?) - metal
Orcrist (?) [self-released]

ORCRIST - THE GOBLIN-CLEAVER (Norway?) - industrial, mellow synth-pop/techno

ORK (Bulgaria) - black metal

ORODRUIN (USA) - metal
Orodruin (demo 1999)

ORODRUIN (USA) - black metal

ORODRUIN (USA) - doom metal

ORODRUIN (Australia) - black metal

ORODRUIN (USA) - black metal

ORODRUIN (Brazil) - rock

ORTHANC (Belgium) - power metal

ORTHANC (Netherlands?) - metal [renamed THE COLONY]

ORTHANC (Finland) – black metal

ORTHANC (Russia) – war metal

OSGILIATH (USA) - black metal

OSGILIATH (Canada) - power metal

OSGILIATH (USA) - black metal
Osgiliath (demo 2007) OSGILIATH (USA) - metal

OSGILIATH (UK) - black metal

OSGILIATH (USA) - metal [renamed HAMMERFEST]

Osgiliath (demo 2007) PALANTIR (USA) - electronic?
project of Patrick Shannon McKiernan et al

PARTH GALEN (Germany) - prog metal [now DREAMSCAPE]

THE PIRATES OF MORDOR (USA) - hardcore

QUENDI (France) - rock

QUICKBEAM (Scotland) - acoustic

PELENNOR FIELDS (USA) - black metal

RADAGAST (Columbia) - metal

RADAGAST RECORDS (USA) - indie

RADAGAST THE BROWN (USA) - experimental

RADIGOST (Russia) - ?

RADIO RIVENDELL

RAUGZ AUGA (Sweden) - black metal

THE READ SONGBOOK OF WESTMARCH
"A collection of many (over 50) musical parodies inspired by the work of J.R.R. Tolkien. Some are in the vein of "derivative filksongs" and some are more offbeat, being the work of us Tolkien Eccentric Unusual Nut-Cases."

REMMIRATH (Slovakia) - black metal

REPRISAL (Italy) - alternative death metal/hardcore
Where Heavy Gloom Dominate (CD 1998) [Voice of Life Records]
Album uses artwork by John Howe and Alan Lee (front = Barad-dur; back = Helm's Deep)

REPTILE (USA) - psychedelic
Hobbitozz ... A Land That Never Was (CD 2015) [Cubby Control Records]

RHUN (Germany) – metal

RHŰN (Argentina) - metal

RIDERS OF THE MARK (USA) - pop psychedelic
The Electronic Insides VINTAGE SOLEMNITY (Turk And Metal Complexion That Make Up Herr Doktor Krieg/Gotta Find Somebody (45" 1967) [20th Century Fox]

RIDERS OF ROHAN (?) - acoustic guitar duo
project of Greg Rotiek and Mike Batzler

RIDERS OF ROHAN (USA) - ?

RIDERS OF ROHAN (USA) - black metal

RIVENDEL (Spain) - neo-prog

RIVENDEL (Chile) - hard prog

RIVENDELL (Spain) - folk

RIVENDELL (Poland) - celtic

RIVENDELL (Poland) - folk?

RIVENDELL (USA) - celtic

RIVENDELL (USA) - rock

RIVENDELL (Japan) - irish harp & accordion

RIVENDELL (Poland) -prog

RIVENDELL LOST (USA) - prog

THE RIVENDELL PROGPAGE (Sweden) - prog zine

ROAC (Iceland) - black metal

ROHIRRIM (USA) - metal

RUDULPH AND THE RIDERS OF ROHAN (USA) - psychedelic

RUIN OHTAR (USA) - metal

SAMMATH (Poland) - experimental

SAMMATH NAUR (Poland) - black metal

SAMWISE (USA) - ?

.DOT (Netherlands) electronic: experimental
Sára Celebrindal (CDR 2005)
Title derived from an invented language called Noimúlac.

SARUMAN (?) - black metal

SARUMAN GRASS (UK) - prog [now JADIS]

SAURON (Croatia) - metal

SAURON (USA) - jazz?

SAURON (USA) - black metal

SAURON (Sweden) - black metal

SAURON (Poland) - death metal

SAURON (Poland) - black metal

SAURON (Argentina) - metal
Sauron (CD 1997)

SAURON MUSIC (Switzerland) - electronic

SAURON'S LIST (USA) - indie

SCATHA (Brazil) - thrash metal

SCATHA (USA) - black metal

SCATHA (Scotland) - celtic punk

SEREGON (Turkey) - epic doom metal

SEREGON (UK) - thrash metal

SEREGON (?) - ? [now RAVENSCAR]

SHADOW_FAX (USA) - new wave

SHADOWFAX (UK) - metal
The Russians Are Coming/Calling the Shots (7" 1980) [?]

SHADOWFAX (USA) – rhythm & blues/modern jazz
Shadowfax (LP 1982) [Windham Hill Records]

SHADOWFAX (USA) - metal
Early heavy metal band based in Louisiana.

SHADOWFAX (USA) - hip hop

SHADOWFAX (USA) - experimental

SHADOWFAX (Ireland) - rock

SHADOWFAX (Ireland) - thrash metal

SHADOWFAX (USA) - alternative

SHADOWFAX (USA) - rock

SHAGRAT (UK) - instrumental psychedelic
project of Shagrat the Vagrant (Steve Peregrin Took of TYRANNOSAURUS REX)

SHAGRAT (UK) - experimental

SHAGRAT (USA) - rock

THE SHARDS OF NARSIL (USA) - metal

SHELOB'S LAIR (Germany) - black metal
Nightfall In Heaven (demo-CD 2000) [self-released]

SHIRE (USA) – metal
Shire (1984?)

SILMARIL (USA) - psychedelic
"Awash in fuzz boxes and acid trips, the dozens of other overlooked groups from the psychedelic era bear little resemblance to Silmaril. While others buzzed within the hippie epicenters of Haight Street and the Lower East Side, Silmaril formed in haunted, industrial Milwaukee. Other bands might have met at a love-in; Silmaril were friends from a Catholic youth retreat bound together by a doomed figure in the eccentric madman tradition of Syd Barrett, Roy Harper and Mel Lyman by the name of Matthew Peregrine. The Voyage of Icarus captures the dark, mysterious, and achingly beautiful acid folk & Christian themed psychedelic sounds that emanated from 1973's privately pressed album, Given Time... Or the Several Roads, and their dormant, unreleased follow up No Mirrored Temple. The Voyage of Icarus (locust 87) available 2007 on cd / double vinyl."

SILMARIL (?) - rock

SILMARIL CAFE LIBRO (Columbia) - rock

SILMARILLION (Norway) - ?

SILMARILS (France) – metal/fusion
Silmarils (CD 1995) [Murrayfield Music]

SIMBELMYNE (USA) - metal

SIMBELMYNE (Finland) - prog metal

SIMBELMYNË (Chile) - doom metal

SINDAR (Israel) - metal

SINDAR (Poland) - metal

SIRANNON (Turkey) - black metal

SIRION (Germany) - electronic

SIRION (Portugal) - prog thrash metal

SIRION STUDIOS (Amsterdam) - ?

SMAUG (UK) - gothic/experimental [traxinspace]

SMAUG (USA)- reggae

SMAUG (USA) - experimental

SMAUG (USA) - electronic

SMEAGOL (Norway) - ?

SMEAGOL (USA) - hip hop

SMEAGOL (Germany) - metal

SMEAGOL (USA) - hardcore

SMEAGOL (Poland) - hip hop

SMEAGOL (USA) - black metal

DICK SMEAGOL (USA) - hip hop

SMEAGOL AND FEZZA (UK) - hip hop

SMEAGOL E L'URUKAI (Italy) - alternative

SMEAGOLIZED (USA) - ?

SNAGA (Australia) - black metal

SNAGA & PILLATH (Germany) - hip hop

SNAGAH (Belgium) - black metal?

THE SOFT MACHINE (UK) - psychedelic
Middle Earth (CDR 1999) [bootleg]

SOLDIERS OF SAURON (Iceland) - death metal

STONE OF ERECH (Spain) - black metal
Stone of Erech (EP 2008) [Folk Productions]

STORMCROW (Italy) - black metal?

STREAMS OF CONSCIOUSNESS (France) - doom metal
project of Nazgul

STRIDER (USA) - rock
project of George Dussault

STRIDER (UK) - hard rock
Exposed (LP 1973) [Warner Brothers Records]
Misunderstood (LP 1974) [GM Records]

THE STRIDERS (USA) - pop

STRIIDER (Netherlands) - ?

STRYDER (South Africa) - power metal [formerly ARAGORN]
Stryder (cassette 1992) [Inhouse Records]

EL SUEŃO DE ISILDUR (Argentina) - prog

SUFFERING SOULS (Germany) - black metal
Lord Esgaroth, Gor Mordor

THE SWIM TEAM (?) - rock
Treebeard (CD 2010) [Hi-Scores Recording]

SIMBELMYNE (USA) - prog metal
Sojourn Year (CD 2009) [Ecology of Sound Productions]

T-SNAKE (USA) - rave
Middle Earth: The Rave (1996)
"Brought on by T-Snake's love of a trading card game (Middle Earth: The Wizards) and Tolkien in general... we played the animated features:The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings and Return of the King projected on one wall inbetween the two main rooms. One chill room had jungle and ambient, the other room, trance, acid and sheesh, don't remember. Justin Johnson was the only non Burlington DJ to grace us. Others included: Tricky Pat, DJ Prime, Ricochet, Puzzle(aka Aqua), Keith and Twist. Only $2 at the door and people were quite shocked at how fun it was..."

TALATH DIRNEN (Poland) - prog

TANGORODREAM (Ukraine) - black metal

TÁRI-NIENNA (Norway) - pop

TELPERION (Columbia) - metal

TELÜMEHTĹR (France) - black metal

10 INCH BILLY

TENGWAR (UK) - grunge

TERRE DI MEZZO (Italy) – nationalist folk
Terre di Mezzo (tape 1996) [Rupe Tarpea Produzioni]

TERRE DI MEZZO TRIO (Italy) - ethnojazz fusion
project of Simone Zanchini and Emiliano Rodriguez
Terre di Mezzo (CD 2001?) [?]

THALION (Canada) - power metal

THALION (Brazil) - prog power metal

THANGORODRIM (USA) - black metal

THEODEN (Greece) - electronic: trance

A THEORY OF AN ISOLATION EFFECT (USA) - alternative metal
Live from the Gallows of Lothlorien (CD ?) [self-released]

THORIN (USA) - folk metal

THORIN OAKENSHIELD (USA) - rock

THORONATH (Finland) – black metal

THORONDOR (USA) - black metal

TILION (Italy) - rock

TINUVIEL (Norway) - prog

TINUVIEL (Sweden) - metal

TIRITH PRODUCTIONS (Netherlands) - trance

A THEORY OF AN ISOLATION EFFECT (USA) - alternative metal
Live from the Gallows of Lothlorien (CD ?) [self-released]

THORIN EICHENSCHILD (Germany) - folk rock

THORONATH (Finland) – black metal

THE THOUSAND CAVES (USA) - recording studio

TILION (Italy) - rock

TO VALINOR (USA) - metal

TOL ERESSËA (France) - hardcore
Tol Eressëa (CD 2009) [self-released]

TOL ERESSEA STUDIOS (USA) - prog

TOL-IN-GAURHOTH (Bulgaria) - black metal

TOLKIEN (Israel) - rock
"If you can't change the world, why not make up one of your own? It's only as real as it feels."

TOLKIEN (France) – ?

THE TOLKIEN HEADS (?) - satire/parody
Tower of Sauron

Dawn from inside the hollow willow

the tower of sauron

journey over dale and hill

ascension on sauron's domain

brief respite
TOM BOMBADIL (Italy) - ?
project of Pier Paderni, Rossella Cominelli and Marco Damiani

TOM BOMBADILL & THE HOBBIT ROCKERS (Sweden) - pop

TOM BOMBADIL FOLKBAND (Germany) - folk

TREEBEARD (Canada) - alternative power pop

TREEBEARD (USA) - folk

TREEBEARD (Canada) - indie

TREEBEARD (USA) - indie

TREEBEARD (USA) - folk

TREEBEARD (Greenland) - eclectic

TROLL (Norway) – black metal
project of Nagash, Glaurung et al

TRZEZWY HOBBITY (Poland) - filk

TSJUDER (Norway) - black metal
project of Draugluin et al

TURAMBAR (USA) - doom metal
Turambar (CD 2005)

TURAMBAR (Argentina) - metal

TURAMBAR STUDIOS (?) - ?

TYRRANOSAURUS REX (UK) – acoustic, guitar and bongos
project of Marc Bolan and Steve Peregrine Took
My people were fair and had sky in their hair, but now they're content to wear stars on their brows (LP 1968) [Regal Zonophone]
There Was a Time: Live at 'Middle Earth' September 23rd 1967 (CD 2001) [TREX ACTION GROUP]

UDDERLY RIDICULOUS (USA) - ?
project of Rivendell et al

UGLUK (Italy) – viking metal

ULAIRI (Bolivia) - death metal

ULMO (Switzerland) - alternative

ULMO (Sweden) - rock

ULMO (Hungary) - electronic: house

UNGOLIANT (Spain) - black metal

UNGOLIANT (Sweden) – black metal
project of Witchking

UNGOLIANTHA (?) - metal?

UNHOLY MORGOTH (Brazil) - black metal

UNI & HER UKELELE (USA) - pop
Aotearoa - U Know, Where They Made Lord Of The Rings! (CDR 2011) [?]

URUK-HAI (Spain) - black metal
In the Side of Eternal Eclipse (CD 2001) [Battlefield Records]

URUK-HAI (Spain) - black metal

URUK-HAI (USA) - a cappella

URUK-HAI (USA) - electronic

URUK-HAI (Mexico) - black metal

URUK HAI (USA) - grindcore

URUK HAI (UK) - rock

UTUMNO (Sweden) – death/power metal
The Light Of Day (7" 1991) [Cenotaph Records]
Across The Horizons (CD 1993) [self-released]

UTUMNO (UK) - black metal

UTUMNO (Sweden) - death metal

UTUMNO (USA) - death metal

UTUMNO (UK) - death metal

VALAQUENTA (France) - metal

VALARAUKAR (CZECH REPUBLIC) - black metal
Lair of Heloth (demo-CDR 2005) [Naga Productions]

VALARAUKAR (Chile) - black metal

VALARAUKAR RECORDS (Germany) - record label

VALATHALION (Canada) - prog metal

VALAR (Italy?) - power metal
Valar (?) [?]

VALAR (Italy) - black metal

VALAR (Columbia) - celtic

THE VALAR (USA) - eclectic

VALAR MORGHULIS (Italy) - black metal

VALAR MORGHULIS (USA) - acoustic

VALARX (Norway) - electronic

VALIMAR (Australia) - metal

VALIMAR (USA) - death metal

VALINOR (Spain) - power metal

VALINOR (Poland) - black metal

VALINOR (Italy) - doom with techno/psychedelic influences

VALINOR (USA) - metal

VALINOR (USA) - ?

VALINOR (Australia) - folk

VALINOR (Colombia) - metal

VALINOR (Poland) - metal

VALINOR QUARTET (USA) - eclectic

THE VALINOR ELF (Indonesia) - punk

VALINOR'S TREE (Sweden) - prog

VANTAGE (?) - ?
project of Gimli

VANYAR (?) - alternative punk/grunge

VARDA (USA) - electronic

VARIOUS ARTISTS (?) - techno
Songs for Luthien Tinuviel (CD ?) [Nashmeja]

VARIOUS ARTISTS (?) - ?
The Nazgul's Hoard (CD ?) [Nazgul's Eyrie Productions? Nazgul Magazine?]

VARIOUS ARTISTS (?) - energetic melodic psy-trance
Gandalf (CD 2001) [Ketuh Records]

VARIOUS ARTISTS (Latvia) - fantasy metal
Unto a Long Glory (comp-tape ?) [Elven Witchcraft]

VARIOUS ARTISTS (UK) - psychedelic
Acid Drops, Spacedust & Flying Saucers (2-CD set 2001) [?]
Disc One: Down To Middle Earth
Disc Two: Gandalf's Garden

VARIOUS ARTISTS (?) - black metal
Angmar Compilation Vol. 1 (CD ?) [Angmar magazine]

VARIOUS ARTISTS (Australia) - rave
Lothlorien: A Forest Rave

VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA (UK) - psychedelic
Hollin (CDR 2000)[self-released]

VINCI (France) - electronic industrial experimental
Gil-Galad (cassette 1995) [Exprel]

WARGRIDER (USA) - black metal

WATCHER IN THE WATER (Canada) - black metal

WEATHERTOP (UK) - folk

WEATHERTOP (USA) - experimental

WEATHERTOP PRODUCTIONS (Switzerland) - metal

WESTERNESSE (USA) - rock

WILDERLAND (USA) - folk

WILWARIN FESTIVAL (Germany) - rock

WITCH KING (USA) - black metal

WITCH-KING (Australia) - rock

WITCH-KING (USA) - death metal

THE WITCH-KING (Albania) - electronic: symphonic
"This is my new project, differently from my other project Lord Nazgul. I started this project seriously this year inspired by classical & ambient music, soundtrack themes, spiritual darkness parts of my labyrinth's mind."

WITCH KING OF ANGMAR (Sweden) - black metal

WITCHKING (USA) - rock

WORMTONGUE (Philippines) - metal

THE WRATH OF SAURON (UK) - eclectic

YAVANNA (Germany) - pop

YAVANNA (Italy) - world
Yavanna (CD 2008)