anonymous January 9th, 2007 04:47PM  

This song is definitely about LOTR.

anonymous July 20th, 2007 12:05PM  

I believe this song is just about a man going around the world looking for his soul mate hence the lyrics: "Ramble on , I'm going round the world/I'm gonna find my girl."

anonymous December 15th, 2007 02:19PM  

It actually is about JRR Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings. "Ramble On" is an interpretation of Frodo's struggles of carrying the burden (or gift) of the One Ring, which is replaced by the girl. "But Gollum, the evil one, crept up and slipped away with her." While Frodo was wearing the Ring in Mount Doom and having second thought's about destroying the Ring, Gollum attacked the "invisible" Frodo. Biting off Frodo's finger, Gollum retainted the Ring after many years. Frodo then put up another fight, since Frodo fell to the power of the One Ring, and both fell over the edge of the cliff. Frodo was still hanging on the rock, while Gollum falls to his death in the lava of Mount Doom, destroying the One Ring in the mountain it was forged.

anonymous March 16th, 2008 10:11PM  

This is based on LOTR, Jimmy Page is a big fan of them!

mensoelrey September 13th, 2008 11:30AM  

But how is Frodo a rambler? He just wanted a quiet life. His quest wasn't about rambling, it was about one clear goal. Isn't it possible that you've got it backwards: that mordor and gollum are the symbols for something else, rather than the other way round?

anonymous October 31st, 2008 03:20PM  

In this song "Ramble On" means like keep going, don't stop and give up that's exactly what Frodo needed to do. Ramble on, keep going and destroy the ring.

anonymous May 19th, 2009 08:57PM  

OH MY GOD you retarded lotr fans, just because he uses gollum and mordor in the song doesn't meen that's what he's singing about, he's just relating the journey for his perfect girl to the journey frodo had to make for the ring. lots of people have seen or read w/e lotr. So that's how hard the journey is to find his girl, evil men can come and sweep her away, but he's looking for her for ten years he still hasnt given up on her, like a diamond in the rough, he found a girl so fair in the darkest depths of mordor,

har0462 August 28th, 2009 01:08AM  

The LOTR's interpretation is indeed true. In the mid-1970s I remember reading an interview with Plant, and he said that during that period he was reading a lot of J.R.R. Tolkien. I could never get into Tolkien, so I took his word for it.