I was reading "The Two Towers" today...

[Erik]

...and it struck me that EVERY FUCKING PLACE IN MORDOR has been used for band names.

Amon Amarth: http://www.amonamarth.com/
Barad-Dûr: http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=11090
Cirith Gorgor: http://www.geocities.com/cirith_gorgor/
Cirith Ungol: http://www.bnrmetal.com/groups/ciun.htm
Ephel Dúath: http://www.ephelduath.net/
Gorgoroth: http://www.gorgoroth.org/
Minas Morgul: http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=11607 (Also a Summoning title)
Morannon: http://biphost.spray.se/bryntse/morannon.html
Orodruin: http://www.geocities.com/orodruin1488/ORODRUIN_aryanwarkult.html and there's also a doom band with the same name

HAVE SOME FUCKING CREATIVITY PEOPLE!!!!!!!1111"#"% Though I guess they will be forced now that EVERY Mordor name is taken

 

[J.]

yeah, there are tons. Of course the metal bands would pick the "evil" names. There are lots of other metal bands named after LOTR. Rivendell, Isengard, etc...

 

[J.]

...Uruk Hai...

 

[NAD]

More bands need to read the Silmarillion, there are so many more kickass names in there.

 

[Black Winter Day]

yeah, i realized that too when i re-read the books. is there an actual band called Mordor? cause i was thinking of starting a band and i have no originality whatsoever. maybe i will just call it Hobbiton \m/...

 

[JayKeeley]

It's even more unoriginal when bands take on character names like Gandalf or Arwen!

I think I'll start a one man black satanic nazi jihad fatwa jew band called Frodo.

 

[JayKeeley]

Yep.

 

[Demonspell]

Somebody needs to declare a moratorium on band names stolen from Tolkien. The irony of it all is that many of the bands listed don't get any of their lyrical inspiration from LOTR, but that can be a good thing...

 

[JayKeeley]

Even more ironic that the one band that does get all their inspiration from LoTR, Summoning, doesn't have a name from the books.

Don't forget Blind Guardian.

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

http://www.tolkien-music.com/

Go nuts.

 

[NAD]

Best Tolkien site I've come across (not music related):

http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/