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>Tolkien took names and plot aspects in the LOTR trilogy from the Eddas/Norse legends
>these stories themselves were merely adaptions of oral traditions dating from time immemorial
>these oral legends likely originated as actual events remembered as distant culture memories
So is fair to say that LOTR is just the newest adaptation of of a story/stories that’s possibly thousands of years old?

>> No.10105473

>So is fair to say that LOTR is just the newest adaptation of of a story/stories that’s possibly thousands of years old?

No.

>> No.10105690

This is what most threads on 4chan should look like.

>> No.10105809

Reading the Simmarillion I got bored and just read the Edda's instead

>> No.10106209

Yes, lotr is inherently white

>> No.10106295

>>10104934
Yes. And the stories themselves were Proto-Indo-European in origin.

Start with the Proto-Indo-Europeans.

>> No.10106635
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>>10104934
Every work of art is just the newest adaption of a story that's possibly thousands of years old. Did you think writers just make thing up out of the blue? No. They are just really really really well read, and they took bits and pieces from what they've read and "adapt", although I wouldn't call it adaptation. I would call it creation. You need material to create. Thousands of years of accumulated stories are that material.

>> No.10106643

He just ripped off Wagner.

>> No.10106656

>>10106643
He just ripped off Germanic mythology.

>> No.10106677

all content can be traced throughout time by the intestinal tract