Sandy Denny's big shot at rock's
mass audience was her
duet with
Robert Plant on this
acoustic number from
Led Zeppelin's untitled fourth album (Side 1, Track 3, immediately prior to
Stairway To Heaven -- can't get better
exposure than that). The title and much of the lyric refer to
Lord Of The Rings. Echoed, riffing
mandolins dominate the intrumental. Overall it has a mystical, vaguely spooky tone that that
AOR/"
classic rock" radio likes to save for after midnight.
Covered reverently by The Lovemongers, a side project of Heart's Ann and Nancy Wilson.