Thread: The Fall of Gondolin
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Old 09-13-2018, 01:56 AM   #97
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Originally Posted by pwalker8 View Post
Tolkien was a professor who specialized in Old English and Nordic literature. He published editions of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and a translation of Beowulf. It's not exactly shocking that LOTR was heavily influenced by various classic English, German and Norse epics, legends and myths. ...
"Heavily influenced" by legends and myths is not the same as lifting someone else's history, world or characters and using them in your own book. I've given examples of what I mean in earlier posts.
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