Board Thread:Lore/@comment-27723099-20151027090545

I found a nordic poem that sounds like the inspiration for parts of Theoden's speech at Pellenor and Aragorn's speech at the Black Gate. It's from the Völuspá and describes Ragnarok, the apocalypse of nordic mythology.

—skeggǫld, skálmǫld —skildir ro klofnir— vindǫld, vargǫld— áðr verǫld steypiz. Mun engi maðr ǫðrom þyrma. —an axe age, a sword age —shields are riven— a wind age, a wolf age— before the world goes headlong. No man will have mercy on another.

I'm sure many more origins of Tolkien's ideas (beside the hundreds of names) can be found in the nordic mythology. *plans to read the Edda* 