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Originally Posted by Nabeel
There's always the argument that the whole of Tolkien is derivative of older Anglo-Saxon sources.
I have a sneaking regard for Tolkien. The man set out to write a mythology for modern Britain, and sixty years later, who doesn't know what a 'hobbit' is?
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Exactly. And I don't think he would have any problem with the claim that his stories were derived from myths. As far as I know, however, hobbits were his own creation.