Could this be related to the (once understandable for obvious reasons, but now I think quite irrational) distaste for Wagner in Israel? D&D is derived from Tolkien, whose "Lord of the Rings" is in turn painfully derivative of (and to my mind infinitely inferior to) The Ring of the Nibelungen.
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