Me (OT): Considering how utterly unliekable Wagner's so-called heroes are, I'm not > surprised that you preferred the dragon.
> Besides, a dragon resembling a steam train is Tolkien canon, right? > Remember Bilbo's birthday party and Gandalf's fireworks?
Their reply was:
Wasn´t it an express train in Tolkien´s case? I doubt they still ran on steam when he wrote LotR. On the other hand, it's a nice thought if the stage designer of Wagner's Ring wanted to make a nod at Tolkien. The two ring stories have been compared often enough. I actually wrote a book about it, which was published last June.
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Me (OT):
Considering how utterly unliekable Wagner's so-called heroes are, I'm not
> surprised that you preferred the dragon.
> Besides, a dragon resembling a steam train is Tolkien canon, right?
> Remember Bilbo's birthday party and Gandalf's fireworks?
Their reply was:
Wasn´t it an express train in Tolkien´s case? I doubt they still ran on
steam when he wrote LotR. On the other hand, it's a nice thought if the
stage designer of Wagner's Ring wanted to make a nod at Tolkien. The two
ring stories have been compared often enough. I actually wrote a book
about it, which was published last June.