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captain_slinkyI have several "Chicken Or The Egg" style questions in my head lately, mostly pop-culture quandaries regarding which came first. I feel kind of ignorant not knowing the answers to these things, figure maybe if I just own up to them on The Internet maybe somebody could come along and school me on them?
Trying to guage the popularity of The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings... was the Middle Earth series revered as a "Classic" before Led Zeppelin released "Ramble On" in 1969? Today, The Hobbit is REQUIRED reading in most schools - is that because it's an incredible book, or because all the English teachers grew up listening to Zeppelin and then found the book and then went "Dude, this is EPIC, why didn't my teachers ever show me this?" I know that the book had a degree of popularity before the song, but how much popularity? Enough to have become a literary classic without the rock-n-roll boost?
Trying to guage the popularity of The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings... was the Middle Earth series revered as a "Classic" before Led Zeppelin released "Ramble On" in 1969? Today, The Hobbit is REQUIRED reading in most schools - is that because it's an incredible book, or because all the English teachers grew up listening to Zeppelin and then found the book and then went "Dude, this is EPIC, why didn't my teachers ever show me this?" I know that the book had a degree of popularity before the song, but how much popularity? Enough to have become a literary classic without the rock-n-roll boost?
