Talk:Stairway to Heaven

Another corker

Another great article, Meg! --Larry Sanger 10:09, 25 July 2008 (CDT)

Inaccuracies and woolliness?

Wonderful page, but I have a few quibbles...

"It's not coincidental that the next two tracks on Led Zeppelin IV; 'Misty Mountain Hop' and 'Going to California' ..." Not on my copy - after Misty Mountain Hop is Four Sticks.

As for:

"It's possible that 'Stairway to Heaven' also makes many references to Tolkien's story. The phrase, 'In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees' could be a reference to the smoke rings blown by the wizard Gandalf.[13] Some scholars believe the song itself was inspired by the novel - and that the lady spoken of in the tale is Lady Galadriel, the Queen of Elves who lives in the golden forest of Lothlórien. In the book, all that glittered around her, was in fact, gold, as the leaves of the trees in the forest of Lothlórien were golden.[14]"

I'm sorry, but that's a stretch. I appreciate that CZ is less rigorous than WP about weasel words, but - fan though I am of both Zep and LoTR I find this paragraph a bit cringeworthy. IMO we could happily lose this paragraph completely. OTOH the Tolkien - Zep connection is perhaps significant enough to feature in a page in its own right. Unfortunately I'm not up to it - I don't believe my skills or patience are sufficient. --Matthew Simon Quartermain 19:56, 7 May 2010 (UTC)