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Originally Posted by pshrynk
I recall quite a few papers in my life on the parallels between LOTR and DRDN. In fact, I vaguely recall that there was a simlarly named character in each. I'll have to re-listen some weekend soon. Also, the Finnish and Norse mythologies that they are both derivatives of are fascinating reading. There is a troll or some other character named Gandalf there...
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The name "Gandalf" and all the twelve dwarves in "The Hobbit" Tolkien took from a poem called the "Völuspá", which is a portion of the Norse epic called the "Elder Edda", which he had done a great deal of work on in his profession as a philologist.