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Hungry Ghoul
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Re: Tolkien Inspirations
The point is that from a philologist and intellectual professor such as JRRT we can be sure he knew both Aragón and Mithras (hey, when even I know both).
Hence I would deny the possibility of influence in those cases, apart from possibly a linguistic one, i.e. that Tolkien liked the sound of the names and used similar ones.
That the book has some basis in personal experience is admitted by JRRT in the foreword to the 2nd edition, where he mentions the spoiling of his countryside in his childhood as influencial, but not allegorically used in LOTR.
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