[partyrepub]

Wagner wrote the Ring years before Tolken wrote the Rings.
If anything Tolken took Wagner’s Idea.

[ckilmer]

If anything Tolken took Wagner’s Idea.
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Yes that’s what I meant. But he did it in such a way as not to be a terrible curse on the audience.

Poor germans didn’t know they were damned to hell every time they sat before wagner’s monsters.

[DiogenesLamp]

Wagner wrote the Ring years before Tolken wrote the Rings. If anything Tolken took Wagner’s Idea.

Almost right. Very close.

https://pjmedia.com/spengler/2016/08/31/why-did-tolkien-care-about-the-jews/