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For my Collection Audit project, I'm listening to the soundtrack from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. I noticed that one of the tracks is titled "Lothlorien" (it's the name of a forest in Middle Earth), which reminded me of something I haven't written about yet.
On Argent's Ring of Hands album, there's also a track called "Lothlorien," and I can't imagine that they got that title from anywhere else.
I actually happened across this connection six years ago. I was just getting into Argent, and all I had was the Greatest Hits: The Singles Collection album. It was my first semester of college, and I was taking a philosophy class on Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. When the professor mentioned Lothlorien in class, I thought, "Wait, isn't that the title of an Argent song?" and checkt the track listing as soon as I got back to my dorm.
I haven't made much progress in transcribing it yet, so I haven't really lookt at it to find any thematic connections between it and Lord of the Rings (which - despite having taken a class on it - I've read only twice).
