"jason and the golden fleece" and "lord of the rings" related?

Question

do you guys feel it is possible that the lord of the rings was influenced by the story of jason and the golden fleece?

i need to write a paper about how the story of jason and the golden fleece can be found in today's society.

if you have any other ideas, it will be greatly appreciated

thanks for the help guys

maybe the stories are not related

but do you think the characters frodo and jason are related at all??

Answer 1

There are a limited number of available plots in literature,. One of those plots is the quest. LOTL and the Argonaut myth both fall into that plot type.

But Tolkien was a professor of philology, and an educated man. He took plot elements from many sources and incorporated them into LOTL. He may well have either consciously or unconsciously incorporated elements of the Argonauts.

Answer 2

Greek myths did one of two things. They either taught a lesson or explained an occurence. You'll have to figure out what lesson Jason's myth taught. If I remember correctly, (haven't had Mythology in a while), Jason was one of the few great Greek heroes that didn't have some mighty power. He just knew how to get people to work together and he had a knack for running the crew of the Argonaut.

Answer 3

Well middle earth does seem to relate to the middle ages...archers, Merlin the wizard...even predating history back to days of the gods...Thor god of thunder w/ his hammer, Zeus who battled giants and titans...all history points to a middle earth type scenario...even Jason and the Argonauts who battled the crakon...

Answer 4

not at all, j r r tolkien wrote the lord of the rings trilogy using WW1 as his source for a storyline