i may not be as well educated as most of these posts sound, but, reading passages from my wicca books which are " full of poor scolarship and half baked 'magic' ", i am of the belief that tolkien took any form of legend and mythos including thier respective langues, and brought together a wonderful piece of literiture. you can look up and resurch any religion, including wicca, and find a piece of it in his writtings. but, again, this is only my point of view.
[ May 25, 2003: Message edited by: manaratowen ]
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