Tolkien and Wagner drank from the same public well, which is a very different thing than stealing one thing from another.
In fact, Tolkien, as a scholar of Norse and Anglo-Saxon cultures (and who could read and write in both languages), drew from deeper material than Wagner did; so if anything, his story is a fuller and more authentic interpretation of the ancient Germanic legends than Wagner's version.
I really don't want to write another web log entry. The "Thanks" one was supposed to be
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September 2019
September 25th, 2019 06:28 PM 