I've been listening to Siegfried over the last few days, now complete with the libretto. So here's the original Arthur Rackham classic of Siegfried killing Fafner.
And here, just to compare and contrast, is John Howe's take on Tolkien's version of the story (or rather of Tolkien's story that was inspired by the Finnish verion of the original legend).
There is of course plenty more Arthur Rackahm stuff out there. Here's Siegfried again, for example, more or less where I left him on Saturday evening, dracone mortuo. And here's Brünnhilde.
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