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The House of the Wolfings influenced The Lord of the Rings
Added by Media Influence Map · 5 October 2026
The evidence
Tolkien acknowledged in a letter that the Dead Marshes and the approach to the Morannon owe something to William Morris and his Huns and Romans, as in The House of the Wolfings. Morris's Mirkwood, his northern tribes at war with an empire and his archaic prose were a model Tolkien admired from his student days.
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