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Hmm... yeah, I skipped that part.

Still, is this Wagner's ring circle any good? what is it about? Would anyone recommend reading it?
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It is an opera. SRD gives a brief version of the storyline in the TRS afterword.
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Revan wrote:Hmm... yeah, I skipped that part.

Still, is this Wagner's ring circle any good? what is it about? Would anyone recommend reading it?
Murrin wrote:It is an opera. SRD gives a brief version of the storyline in the TRS afterword.
Wagner's opera is based on the Nibelungenlied (germanic mythology)
here's a brief description...i have to read the Nibelungenlied this semester for Myth in Literature class...am looking forward to it...but first The Iliad!! heh.

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According to SRD, "Godsen Frik is the "dark and hungry god" Holt Fasner's moral son".

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Sorus wrote:According to SRD, "Godsen Frik is the "dark and hungry god" Holt Fasner's moral son".
That's so odd.
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Isn't it?

Holt still makes more sense to me. :?

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Guess there was more to Godsen than the snivelling butt licking toady I became accustomed to! :lol:
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Loremaster wrote:
Sorus wrote:According to SRD, "Godsen Frik is the "dark and hungry god" Holt Fasner's moral son".
That's so odd.
I think you guys are misinterpreting this sentence. I read it as:

"Godsen Frik is the moral son of the 'dark and hungry god,' Holt Fasner"

I mostly thought of Frik as a "snivelling butt licking toady" myself. Too bad SRD didn't let Angus at him...
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Frik chose Warden in the end... remember that. :)
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Revan wrote:Hmm... yeah, I skipped that part.

Still, is this Wagner's ring circle any good? what is it about? Would anyone recommend reading it?
Actually, isn't it an entire series of operas? Every now and then I will notice that a major opera company (the one in Chicago did it a year or so ago) will tackle it, and they will do an opera a night; and it takes a few nights to get through it. A major undertaking of time and money and commitment, both for the company and for the patrons. :)

Perhaps when I am retired I might have the time for something like that someday. :lol:

Probably the best known bit of music from any of those operas would be an instrumental piece known as Ride of the Valkyries, which was used extensively in the film Apocalypse Now...
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duchess of malfi wrote:Actually, isn't it an entire series of operas?
Indeed. Der Ring des Nibelungen consists of Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung.
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