The Hobbit is More Hip - Hop and satanic than you think

There is no shortage of songs about the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. Zeppelin, Sabbath, Rush, and so on et cetera. But let's get deep. Real-*** Hobbit music. For some reason, every classic rock band ever wrote a song about Bilbo Baggins, and I am bored by this. No seriously I don't want to hear another jangly space jam that's just long hairs ripping bowls and then singing about wizards and Mordor and plateaus of evil. Tolkien's fantasy tomes were well-covered by the heshers of yore. But today -- actually let's just give Lenard Nimoy a minute here -- Now that that's out of the way -- today we have a whole new generation of Hobbit-loving musicians, and some of them are Oscar-nominated gifts from God like Gary Busey. Yes, Gary, I do see what you mean. Earlier in that video he actually licks a persevered hobbit's foot and insists Usher record that song. He might have to better luck with Lords of the Rhymes. Lords of the Rhymes are two hobbits from the humble shire of New York City with a clear affinity for the Beastie Boys. They are *** awesome. Hobbit hail from Tyler, Texas. They formed in the '70s, recorded in the '80s, and didn't release any music until the turn of the millennium. Worth the wait. I love Hobbit. They are the Rodriguez of East Texas boogie rock, and one day you will all know it. If you're following along, you won't be surprised how many contemporary metal bands are eyeball-deep in Tolkien lore. But unlike their ***-wagging, floppy-haired predecessors, they are serious-er. Gorgoroth are named after a region of Mordor. They also have performed surrounded by severed sheep's heads with naked people tied to crosses while dousing themselves in 80 liters of sheep's blood. Blind Guardian are less spooky -- they just can't stop writing songs about our boy Bilbo. They have a record called "Nightfall in Middle Earth." They have spent a decade writing an orchestral version of Lord of the Rings. They are cool dudes. There's literally an entire subgenre of power metal -- sometimes called fantasy metal -- that rolls deep with Hobbit references. And Christopher Lee -- Saruman -- has an entire side career in heavy metal. Yeah, dude just needs his own episode. What's your favourite Hobbit-y jam? Let us know in the comments, and be sure to subscribe for more This Exists every week. You can check out links to all of these videos in the description. And may the hair on your toes never fall out.