Talk:Fáfnir

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BetacommandBot (talk) 03:17, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Gollum? Smaug?
While there are passing similarities, the biggest, clearest comparison MUST be to Glaurung, surely? When Turin slays Glaurung, he does it from beneath, much like Sigurd does, and both Glaurung and Fafnir are dragons without wings who hoard gold. There's even reference made to Glaurung releasing poisonous fumes. 121.45.204.16 (talk) 23:07, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
 * While Tolkien denied it in life, but admitted it in death, and many film fans today deny it, Tolkien took most of his ideas from Germanic Sagas.Rosengarten Zu Worms (talk) 18:24, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Definitely - it becomes clear quite clickly that Tolkien himself had very few original ideas, and his skill was in reinterpreting ideas and not creating them as such Faust.TSFL (talk) 19:08, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

Fáfnismál
Why just one slight citation of the Fáfnismál with reference to Tolkien's Smaug? An article on Fáfnir should draw its main materials not just from the Völsunga saga but also from the Fáfnismál (and I presume from further texts, as well).

Notes Section
Does the Byock note really need an entry for every single page used. It seems really unnecessary to me when you could just have one or two notes like Byock(1990) p. 57-59, 63-66, and 79, or some other form. My main point is that there don't need to be 7 entries for 20 pages of one book.Rvayyy (talk) 22:01, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

In Wagner
The statement that "The giants are thought to represent the working class" is almost certainly from George Bernard Shaw's The Perfect Wagnerite (which I have not read). That book is a Marxist interpretation of The Ring, and (to say the least) controversial. Other analysts have very different ideas. I suggest that the sentence be deleted. Narky Blert (talk) 09:27, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

Old Norse Pronunciation
The page currently says the Old Norse pronunciation is [ˈfɑːvnez̠] but that final character — a z with a macron below it — does not have an entry on the Help:IPA page. Is the Help:IPA page incomplete, or is there a typo on this page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:CF46:120:B42E:A029:ACFB:AEC6 (talk) 02:14, 26 October 2021 (UTC)


 * I must say that I am not an expert, but the Algiz rune changed pronunciation at some point. Many masculine names ended in "-az", similar to Latin "-us". But then the Rune sound changed from Z to R. And then you have endings of "-r" or "-er", as is still the case even in English. Rosengarten Zu Worms (talk) 18:27, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

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