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Authored by: jesse on Sunday, December 09 2012 @ 02:18 PM EST
LOtR was based on many myths, mostly European.

Saying LOtR was copied from Welsh would be like saying Gone with the Wind is
copied from the Civil Way history.

Neither is true.

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Tolkien's Ur-mythos
Authored by: macrorodent on Monday, December 10 2012 @ 08:34 AM EST

Oh? The page you link to also lists quite a number of mythologies from other cultures as influences (my Finnish one included).

Nothing wrong with that. In fact, one way to look at Tolkien's world is that he tried to create the "real" events that would later (thousands of years later!) echo in the Finnish, Welsh, etc. mythology. The Middle Earth was never meant to be another planet, or a parallel universe, but the far distant past of our own world.

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