Originally Posted by Trollheart

I had (think I still do somewhere) a great CD called "The Ring without words". Just the music. Epic stuff. I personally can't stand opera, mostly because it's not in English and I wouldn't be able to follow the story, though I do know the basis of the Germanic legends on which the Ring is based. It is as Batlord says though bloody long...

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.