Tolkien, Wagner, & the Rings of Power
Did Bilbo Baggins steal the One Ring from Gollum? Tolkien geeks debate the issue to this day. The more interesting question: Did author J.R.R. Tolkien steal the ring from composer Richard Wagner? In our chapter on the ring in our recently released book The Hobbit Party, we bring in everything from Plato and the Panopticon [...]