LoTR and viking history - similarities

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• AlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,924MI6 Agent

  May 2015

  This has prompted me to re-read his Novels -{

  1.On Her Majesties Secret Service 2.The Living Daylights 3.license To Kill 4.The Spy Who Loved Me 5.Goldfinger
• Silhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,689MI6 Agent

  May 2015

  Interesting post. I have collectable copies of some of them but I have yet to read any of them. Not seen the films either.

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• Thunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent

  May 2015

  I think Game of Thrones, lifts plenty of bits of mythology from many backgrounds.

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• Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,792MI6 Agent

  May 2015 edited May 2015

  I think you confuse Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones, TP. But you are right. LoTR is lifted from many sources. Mainly Tolkien's briliant imagination, but also Norwegian history and folklore. I'm sure Tolkien was influenced by Snorre Sturlason's "Heimskringla - or The Cronicles of the Kings of Norway". I even think it likely the filmmakers studied the illustrations of his book, because of the simmularities.
• Thunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent

  May 2015

  ) I'm so used to hearing about TGOT, that I sometimes get confused.
  I'm also very tired after a long day.

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• Silhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,689MI6 Agent

  May 2015

  I believe that the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany was another contemporary evil influence on Tolkein's writing too of course.

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• AlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,924MI6 Agent

  May 2015

  Has anyone seen the underrated 1978 animated LOTR Film?

  1.On Her Majesties Secret Service 2.The Living Daylights 3.license To Kill 4.The Spy Who Loved Me 5.Goldfinger
• Barbel ScotlandPosts: 36,299Chief of Staff

  May 2015

  Yes, it was a pity they never got around to a Part Two.
• Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,792MI6 Agent

  May 2015

  Silhouette Man wrote:

  I believe that the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany was another contemporary evil influence on Tolkein's writing too of course.

  
  I think the rise of Hitler somehow inspired Tolkien. In the movies there are shots like the urukai army parading in front of Saruman that reminds me very much of the nazi Nurenberg rallies.
  It's also not a stretch to say Stalin and the Soviet Union may have been an influence.
• Hardyboy Posts: 5,882Chief of Staff

  May 2015

  Actually, the biggest influence on Tolkien was medieval (specifically Anglo-Saxon) literature. No surprise, since he was a professor of medieval lit--and, according to his students Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin, a bloody dull one. In fact, Tolkien said that the greatest tragedy in British literary history was the Norman invasion of 1066, because until that time the Britons were on the verge of developing their own vibrant literature; but the Normans injected it with French romance and destroyed it. Tolkien tried to make TLOTR into what British literature would have been if the Normans had never invaded. It's no surprise that there would be Viking connections to Tolkien's work, though, since the Angles and Saxons worshipped the same gods as the Vikings and had many cultural similarities.

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