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[Emily-June]

We all know Peter Jacksons' great movie series 'Lord of the Rings'. It's an adaption of a wonderful book series writen by J.R.R. Tolkien. And of course, Mr. Jackson did great in casting the characters. But let's get away from this. Let our imagination run a little wild. Let's imagine J.R.R. Tolkiens trilogy 'Lord of the Rings' would become a musical. Let's imagine further this musical would've been casted during the 80th. The time so much new kind of music came up and so many great bands where there.

The Fellowship

Frodo - Limahl
First Limahl was singer of 'Kajagoogoo', later he started his solo-carrier. His most famous solo-song was 'Neverending Story', the theme of the same named movie - which by the way was also a very good book adaption (originally writen by Michael Ende).




Aragorn - Simon le Bon
He is the lead-singer of 80th most popular british-pop-bands 'Duran Duran'. They had so much great and successful songs - like 'Hungry Like the Wolf', 'Wild Boys', 'A Few To A Kill' (theme of the 'James Bond' movie starring Timothy Dalton and Grace Jones) and 'Notorious' - and they'd been my heroes.




Gimli - Jon Bon Jovi
Initiator and lead-singer of 'Bon Jovi' - one of the best great hair-rock-band of the 80th. Untill today Jon Bon Jovi and his band are very popular. Here are a few of their songs everyone knows: 'You Give Love a Bad Name', 'Living on a Prayer', 'Bad Medicine' and 'I'll Be There for You'.




Legolas - Andy Bell
Andy Bell was the singer of 'Erasure'. He and Vince Clark (original member of 'Depeche Mode') made synthie-pop very popular. Andys voice is unique and wonderful - and only he could bring songs like 'Oh L'amour', 'Sometimes' or 'Ship Of Fools' to life - which still gives me goosebumps.




Gandalf - David Lee Roth
He was lead-singer of the hard-rock-band 'Van Halen' for many years. Next to his incredible voice he was famous for bizarre gigs. As solo-singer his well known songs are 'California Girls', 'Just a gigolo' and 'Coconut Grove'.

To read more here

What do you think about this casting? Do you agree or would you have cast someone else who was a famous singer during the 80s? Let us know what you think - thank you!
And stay tuned, part two - featuring Bilbo, Gollum and the Elves - will be online soon.