08/29/2026
Tolkien Copied This 1,000-Year-Old Norse Myth
A thousand years before Tolkien wrote about a ring of power that corrupts everyone who touches it, the Vikings already had one. Andvaranaut: a golden ring forged by a dwarf, stolen by Loki, and cursed to destroy every single being who would ever own it. It turned a son into a father-killer, a prince into a dragon, and the greatest hero of the North into a co**se. This is the complete Norse saga Tolkien studied before writing The Lord of the Rings: the dead otter, the dwarf's curse, Fáfnir the dragon, the hero Sigurd, the Valkyrie betrayed by a ring - and the treasure still lying at the bottom of the Rhine.
Zxa Vault