Steve Smith (musician) Time. During the following year, he was voted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame. In 2003, his DVD "Steve Smith Drumset Technique – History of the U.S. Beat" was voted the No. 1 Educational DVD of the year. He has worked as a session musician for Mariah Carey, Andrea Bocelli, Elisa, Vasco Rossi, Zucchero, Savage Garden, Bryan Adams, Zakir Hussain and Sandip Burman. Additionally, he has played with jazz musicians such as Steps Ahead, Wadada Leo Smith, Tom Coster, Ahmad Jamal, Dave Liebman, Larry Coryell, Victor Wooten, Mike Stern, Randy Brecker, Scott Henderson, Frank Gambale, Stuart Hamm, Dweezil Zappa,
Sun and Moon (Middle-earth) Sun and Moon (Middle-earth) The fantasy author J. R. R. Tolkien of Middle-earth fame included Earth's sun and moon for the cosmology of his myths of Arda. These astronomical bodies appear in various versions of "The Silmarillion", a history of a world, called Middle-earth populated by Elves and other fantastic creatures as well as Men. A version of "The Silmarillion", edited by the author's son and literary executor Christopher Tolkien, was posthumously published in 1977. However the Sun and Moon already appear in the author's writings dating from the 1920s. The sun and moon in Tolkien's legendarium were described in