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you are correct in saying that he based a lot of things off Beowulf. i have not read it but i greatly anticipate it as i will read it next year. Another big part things is the Kalevala. i dont know if any of you have heard of it, but maybe you have. It is an ancient Finnish folktale that, in Tolkien's time, only one person new. This was also a big mythology that influenced him.
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"Its a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to"
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