... do its work a Wagnerian tinge creeps in—fittingly, since “The Lord of the Rings” dwells in the shadow of Wagner's even more monumental “Ring of the Nibelung.” J. R. R. read more
While highly creative, the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien was influenced by a number of sources. Tolkien was inspired by his academic fields of philology and early Germanic literature, especially poetry and mythology, as well as a wide range of other beliefs, culture, and experiences. read more
ANSWER: To date no one has been able to publish any credible evidence showing that J.R.R. Tolkien deliberately or intentionally adapted any of the motifs from Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen (“The Ring of the Nibelung”). read more