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Was J.R.R. Tolkien's LOTR influenced by Wagner's The Ring?

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... 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

Probably somewhat. More importantly, Wagner’s The Ring and LotR were both influenced by the far older stories of Snorri Sturluson’s Prose Edda and also the Poetic Edda, which in turn were inspired by the yet older stories of the Norse sagas. read more

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