The fact that you picked up on the 'flavor' of Professor Tolkien's works as having a definite English and mythic bent shows that he achieved his goal.
On 14 January 1956, he wrote in a letter to a 'Mr Thompson':
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Having set myself a task the arrogance of which I fully recognized and trembled at: being precisely to restore to the English an epic tradition and present them with a mythology of their own: it is a wonderful thing to be told that I have succeeded, at least with those who have still the undarkened heart and mind.
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[ April 16, 2002: Message edited by: Bruce MacCulloch ]