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.

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.