I stand corrected, Guinevere. *sheepish grin*
Tolkien used many Norse and Old English legends to make his cultures seem more "authentic" for a legendarium designed for England. I think he took a "bit" of every culture that somehow influenced England, and somehow put it into Middle-earth.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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