Not just British folklore, but also Norse and Germanic, which could be considered ancestors of of British folklore (as the British Isles contained people descended from those cultures regions.) Also those three places are the countries/regions that I think most exemplify 'whiteness', in so far as it exists, so it makes sense that they would also be included.
I think it was in his letters to/from C.S. Lewis. I know Lewis referred to the Lord of the Rings as free from allegory in an intro or forward to some edition or other.
YoUr BrItIsH fOlKlOrE aLlEgOrY iS tOo WhItE...
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LoTR isn't allegory. Tolkien explicitly denyed this (either in a letter, or the introduction of some printed versions. Possibly both.)
Yeah poor choice of words on my part, but LoTR drew from British folklore and was at least partially supposed to be a sort of unified English myth
Not just British folklore, but also Norse and Germanic, which could be considered ancestors of of British folklore (as the British Isles contained people descended from those cultures regions.) Also those three places are the countries/regions that I think most exemplify 'whiteness', in so far as it exists, so it makes sense that they would also be included.
I think it was in his letters to/from C.S. Lewis. I know Lewis referred to the Lord of the Rings as free from allegory in an intro or forward to some edition or other.
Tolkien's legendarium was intended to be a long lost ancient English mythology which was supposedly set in the past.