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Fosco Burrows · 01-13-2004, 04:48 AM

It would be hard for the early Brits to be christian when the religion only started in the year 0AD, even then it would take a while to get into the British Isles from the Holy land! I saw a documentary a couple of years ago about The Tolkien Society who are based here and that was where it was mentioned about our lack of mythology in England and JRR Tolkiens wish to create such a thing.
There is a Celtic mythology that the Welsh, Scots and Irish followed but all the English have is a couple of stone circles (eg Stonehenge).

01-13-2004, 04:48 AM	#17
Fosco Burrows Pile O'Bones Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Whitwell Posts: 19	It would be hard for the early Brits to be christian when the religion only started in the year 0AD, even then it would take a while to get into the British Isles from the Holy land! I saw a documentary a couple of years ago about The Tolkien Society who are based here and that was where it was mentioned about our lack of mythology in England and JRR Tolkiens wish to create such a thing. There is a Celtic mythology that the Welsh, Scots and Irish followed but all the English have is a couple of stone circles (eg Stonehenge). __________________ "What's that?" "This my friend is a pint" "It comes in pints? I'm getting one!"