J.R.R Tolkien went to college at Oxford University. He was inspired by the Saxon/ Scandinavian tales like Beowulf and even took his elfin language from it. But where did he get the idea for the books? Did they just magically appear? Are you for or against plagiarism? Find out!
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My argument FOR plagiarism:
While looking through some books, I spotted the interesting name Fafnir. I read the story and gasp. Here is the story as I read it:
Heimndr is the dwarf king. He has three sons: Otr, Riegn, and Fafnir. One day, Loki ( the scandinavian trickster god) mistook Otr for and otter and killed him. Heimndr is infuriated and demands blood money for this disgrace. Loki agrees to fill an otter's pelt with gold and sticks in it their cave. But what they don't know is that there is this ring that gives the wearer immense power but with a price (sound familiar yet?). A curse. Fafnir and Reign here of this ring an kill their father in the process to get it (Sounding even more familiar??). Now Fafnir doesn't want to share the ring with Reign so he runs away with it and turns into a giant worm-dragon. While Fafnir is a worm-dragon terrorizing villages, Reign goes and gets a hero named Sigurd who kills the mity beast and destroys the ring.
This story was turned into Siegfried by Wagner. Now, I call this plagiarism because this story was published by an author and unless one of you has a document of Wagner telling Tolkien it was o.k. to use his story, this has to be plagiarism.
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