The Hobbit is more hip-hop and satanic than you think

Subscribe for new episodes every Thursday: http://bit.ly/19jUASK 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-ass Hobbit music. Keep us alive on Patreon:   / thisexists   SOCIAL MEDIA: Twitter:   / samsthrlnd   Facebook:   / whoathisexists   Reddit:   / whoathisexists   Instagram:   / samsthrlnd   Snapchat: samsthrlnd Goodreads: http://bit.ly/1vEDRJf ---------- Links: Hornyism - THE BUSEY ZONE -    • Видео   The Gnome - Pink Floyd -    • The Gnome - Pink Floyd   CAMEL, Nimrodel/The Procession/The White Rider -    • Видео   Leonard Nimoy's Ballad of Bilbo Baggins -    • Видео   Lords of the Rhymes: Music Video -    • Lords of the Rhymes: Music Video   "Lords of the Rhymes: The Untolde Tale" Movie trailer -    • "Lords of the Rhymes: The Untolde Tale" Mo...   Hobbit - Two Feet Tall -    • Hobbit - Two Feet Tall   Hobbit - Join The Celebration -    • Hobbit - Join The Celebration   Gorgoroth - Carving a Giant (uncensored) -    • Видео   Blind Guardian - The Bard's Song-The Hobbit -    • Blind Guardian - The Bard's Song-The Hobbit   Blind Guardian - Lord of the Rings - Live @ Wacken 2011 -    • Видео   Christopher Lee: "The Bloody Verdict of Verden" Music Video -    • Christopher Lee: "The Bloody Verdict of Ve...   ---------- Watch another episode of This Exists: Hunger Games spawns teen filking craze:    • Hunger Games, Harry Potter, and the histor...   Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were a hair metal band:    • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were a hair m...   --------- 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-ass Hobbit music. For some reason, every classic rock band ever wrote all their songs about Bilbo Baggins. I am bored by this. No seriously I don't want to hear another jangly space jam that's just long hairs ripping huge bowls and rambling on about wizards and bullshit -- Okay so Tolkien's fantasy tomes were well-covered by the heshers of yore. And Leonard Nemoy. But today -- actually let's watch Spock for a second -- 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 settle for 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 fucking 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 dick-wagging, floppy-haired predecessors, these dudes are serious-er. Gorgoroth are named after a region of Mordor. They also have performed surrounded by sheep's heads and naked bodies ties to massive crossed 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 whole record called "Nightfall in Middle Earth." They have spent a decade writing a full 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. Oh, and Christopher Lee -- Saruman -- has a whole side career in heavy metal. Yeah, dude just needs his own video. What's your favourite Hobbit-y jam? Let us know in the comments, and subscribe for new episodes of This Exists every week. And may the hair on your toes never fall out. Subscribe for new episodes every Thursday: http://bit.ly/19jUASK