Hobbit; or, There and Back Again | Literary Precedents
Tolkien was a writer enormously indebted to literary tradition, and his literary precedents are legion. Beowulf and Sir Gawain have already been mentioned, but scholars have demonstrated, or sought to demonstrate, the presence of any number of medieval and later works as influences on Tolkien's fiction. Particularly important seem to have been the Elder Edda and the Younger Edda, Norse works written down around 1200 A.D. in which can be found many of the names of Tolkien's dwarves and other characters. Also important to The Hobbit is the Siegfried...
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