Alas! Too much of that and the thread would be closed, I fear. (And Squatter and myself would probably be hung, drawn, and quartered!)
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Though he may not have achieved his original goal of creating a myth for England, he did adapt Scandinavian (dwarves), Celtic (elves), and other Norse legendary and mythical ingredients to a modern audience's mental framework
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In a way he did create a mythology for England. At least, those are some of the elements that went together to make up English culture.