surely significant elements Tolkien brought fantasy…. arranged marri — Adam Gopnik

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This is surely the most significant of the elements that Tolkien brought to fantasy…. his arranged marriage between the Elder Edda and "The Wind in the Willows"–big Icelandic romance and small-scale, cozy English children's book. The story told by "The Lord of the Rings" is essentially what would happen if Mole and Ratty got drafted into the Nibelungenlied.

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