Lalaith, we parallel posted.
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I would reiterate my original assertion. Tolkien knew Irish mythology, of course, and was influenced by it, but not as much as he was by that of Northern Europe.
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I don’t think that Frodo Baggins is saying that Tolkien was more influenced by Irish mythology than any other, but that Tolkien’s construction of Elves was influenced by a certain aspect of Irish mythology. To be honest, I see a more obvious connection between the Tuatha De Danann and Tolkien’s elves, than, for example, between themes in Beowulf and themes in LotR that seem to me, at least, to be more abstract (of course, I do know what Tolkien, himself, has written in this regard).