Lord of the Rings trilogy would make its 4k IMax debut this month. Now, I’m not going to risk my safety or my family’s to watch my favorite trilogy on a really big screen, but the announcement did get Middle Earth on my mind as I walked the barren February landscape in my neighborhood. And I ended up with a very specific song stuck in my head.
Long before Elijah Wood and Sean Astin fought Shelob and scaled the side of Mount Doom, there was another version of JRR Tolkien’s
The Return of the King, one that occasionally popped up on cable in the 90s and still haunts me to this day thanks to a distinct style and, most weirdly, one very catchy tune about forced marches and going off to war to die. Yes, friends, I’m talking about “Where There’s A Whip, There’s a Way,” the supremely strange orc marching song from the Rankin/Bass