[The Squatter of Amon Rûdh]

You guys are nuts.

Absolutely. Cluck, cluck; gibber, gibber; my old man's a mushroom, etc.
Surely hanging, drawing and quartering doesn't frighten you, Kuruharan? For myself, I would go to the scaffold proudly, knowing that I died for comedy.

England is such a "mutt" nation

Oh I see: first I'm a nutter and now I'm a mongrel. Thanks a lot.

Seriously, though: you're right, although you missed out the Romans, and the Vikings never captured the whole lot (unless you count the Normans in that category).

themes that the author of Beowulf, the teller of the oral traditions, Mallory, and all the rest, could not have, would not have brought, precisely because they were not Tolkien, and because they had no idea what the 20th century was like.

Although what Malory and the Beowulf poet did achieve was to put the myths into the context of their own times. Arguably the Anglo-Saxon author did a better job of it, since he keeps his text relatively free of anachronism, with which the Morte d'Arthur positively brims. Tolkien thought very highly of the use of earlier themes by the author of Beowulf, as we can see from his essay Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics (1936)