Ach!
"Twas in the darkest depths of Mordor, I met a girl so fair.
But Gollum, the Evil One, crept up and slipped away with her-er her-er, yeah."
Ramble On. I always hated that one. The Battle of Evermore I can tolerate, and I like No Quarter. Although there are no direct allusions to LoTR, I always think about about the Fellowship setting out from Rivendell with that song.
King has used references to Tolkien in the Gunslinger books, and, I think, in The Talisman. Possibly a few others as well, such as 'It.' I think he wants to make the Gunslinger series his magnum opus although I get the idea that he really doesn't know where he is going to go with it. However, the title of the first book, 'The Dark Tower' is not very subtle, eh? And Roland is Aragorn with six shooters.
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