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Tolkien's work is a solution in search of a problem though. It's unsurprising to conclude that English has so few stories if he discards all its Germanic and Sk

• pm90 4y ago
  But clearly thats not strictly “English” or “British”. The mythos of Nationalism was strong in Tolkiens time (which sorta continue to this day). Every “Nation” needed a homogeneous population with a shared culture and strong bonds that bind them together; one way of doing this was to appeal to an origin myth.
• jonnycomputer 4y ago
  He did not. He reached for those Scandinavian and Germanic stories, to fashion his own, and England's. But to say that the stories of the English would have been the same as the stories of other Germanic and Scandinavian people's assumes much less diversity among all those peoples than had actually existed.