I’m sorry, but this is just far too cool for me not to link to. It’s someone playing a heavy metal version of ‘Concerning Hobbits’ from The Lord Of The Rings. I stumbled over it yesterday, and immediately made Lyn pipe it through her big speakers; it really does kick butt. Mind you, what Tolkien would have made of a piece of music played on an electric guitar but has been adapted from an orchestral piece, originally played as one of the background themes in an adaptation of one of his books, and whose title is taken from one of the subheadings in his preface, I dread to think. Awesome though I think it is, I dare say the professor would have hated what postmodernity has turned his creation into, and I must admit that also makes me feel a bit sad.