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Old 11-09-2013, 11:51 AM   #1512 (permalink)
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You're from Norway right? LOTR is full of old Norse legends. The story of Turin and Glaurung from The Silmarillion is inspired and even lifted at times from Sigurd and Fafnir. Beren and Luthien are Sigurd and Brynhild to the bone. Tolkien was a professor of ancient...stuff, and he was obsessed by that legend. Get with it.
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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.
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