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Iarwain · 05-03-2003, 06:43 PM

Hm. I don't like it when people suggest things like this. Tolkien was influenced by many things, he did not copy them, and most assuredly Wagner would not be one of them.

I don't quite understand how people can find themselves entitled to say what Tolkien was "really writing". It gives the the false idea that Tolkien's works were just massive amounts of allegory, numeric code, or plagiarised storytelling. It's very annoying.

Wagner was hardly a Saxon, and if you really think about it, it isn't quite rational that there would be operas in Anglo-Saxon England or in Iceland during the period when the Norse mythology that Tolkien loved was written.

Iarwain

05-03-2003, 06:43 PM	#5
Iarwain Pugnaciously Primordial Paradox Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Birnham Wood Posts: 800	Hm. I don't like it when people suggest things like this. Tolkien was influenced by many things, he did not copy them, and most assuredly Wagner would not be one of them. I don't quite understand how people can find themselves entitled to say what Tolkien was "really writing". It gives the the false idea that Tolkien's works were just massive amounts of allegory, numeric code, or plagiarised storytelling. It's very annoying. Wagner was hardly a Saxon, and if you really think about it, it isn't quite rational that there would be operas in Anglo-Saxon England or in Iceland during the period when the Norse mythology that Tolkien loved was written. Iarwain __________________ "And what are oaths but words we say to God?"