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  1. Well, shoot, I thought for sure you would get this, WordWolf.

    It was the second song inspired by Lord of the Rings - the first being "Ramble On".

    The name of the song is actually "The Battle of Evermore", and it's on the 4th album right before "Stairway to Heaven".

    Maybe everyone skipped to Stairway and forgot about this one, except for hard-core fans like me.

    Your up, GSG.

  2. I think Stephen King already wrote that story - "Children of the Corn" from Night Shift.

    Plot Summary - from Wikipedia

    A couple has set out on a cross-country road trip to California, in a failing effort to save their disintegrating marriage.

    While driving in rural Nebraska, they run over the body of a young boy who was killed and thrown onto the road.

    Looking for the authorities, they take the body on to the next spot on the map; Gatlin, a small, isolated town that

    seems to be abandoned. Too late, they learn that years previously the town's children murdered everyone

    after embracing the bloody pseudo-Christian cult of an evil being that lurks in the corn fields: "He Who Walks Behind the Rows".

    The wife is captured by the children and the husband barely manages to escape into the cornfields surrounding the town.

    After running some distance, he believes that he has lost the children that had been following him but instead discovers

    the body of his wife, the town's minister, and a police chief. All three have been sacrificed to "He Who Walks Behind the Rows.

    It is then that he realizes that he is on the holy grounds of "He Who Walks Behind the Rows"

    and that an enormous being with glowing red eyes is slowing approaching...

    The next morning, a group of children from Gatlin are at the sacrificial place, looking at the bodies of the two recently killed adults.

    A nine year old boy, Isaac, who is known as a "seer" by the inhabitants, tells them that "He Who Walks Behind The Rows" is displeased

    with their most recent sacrifice and lowers the sacrificial age from nineteen to eighteen.

    The story ends with the eighteen year-olds in the village walking stoically into the corn.

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    We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living. - Wireman (from Duma Key by Stephen King)

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