Andvaranaut

Richard Wagner used Andvaranaut as inspiration for the title of his musical drama Der Ring des Nibelungen. J.R.R. Tolkien may have been inspired by Andvaranaut when designing the One Ring, both by making the One Ring cursed and by making one of its aspects to allow the wearer to find the other Rings of Power, knowing the location of the wearer of each of the Rings of Power, so that the wearer of the One Ring could control these Ringbearers. Modern scholarship emphasizes how Tolkien reimagines Andvaranaut in his poem cycle Sigurd & Guðrún by drawing upon, yet reworking, the incidents of the Völsunga saga. A comparative study demonstrates how the themes attendant on the ring were revised by Tolkien to correspond with contemporary literary interest while retaining key mythological components. == See also ==