Drawing a road from Ovid to the author of the Lord of the Rings, seems impossible at first sight; yet the myth of Orpheus, of rewriting in rewriting, maintains its immutability, its non-rewritable center, questions that cannot be answered: does love manage to win over death? The enterprise of the greatest poet of all times starts thanks to love, but what about the gesture that decrees his defeat, that turn around that condemns Eurydice to death for the second time? Why is Orpheus sacrificed in ways that recall a magic-sacred ritual? Around these points most of the subsequent rewritings have developed, tens and tens of poets and writers have tried to give their answer, their point of view on history.