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Shade of Carn Dûm
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: The Pacific Northwest - Tir Nan Og
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The story of Gyges and The Lord of the Rings
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Story of Gyges by Plato I found this rather interesting while sitting in my ancient near east and ancient greek history courses. I AM NOT saying that Tolkien may have direct influece from this story, but there support for that fact he would have had indirect influece of Greek Mythology in his work. One example to consider would be the Oedipus and Kalevala. What are your thoughts? Do believe through Tolkien's exstensive work with Kalevala, he was indirectly influenced by greek myth? Did he also recieve the same in other northern european works( Lady Gregory's traslation of Irish Myths- many references to Greece). It would be interesting to hear what the forum would have to say. Foot Note: Here is an excellent link to a Tolkien writer, whom in many theories I agreee with. He has his piece about Tolkien and Greek Mythology. Turin-Oedipus question [ May 20, 2003: Message edited by: Eol ]
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