Creatures of Tolkien's Imagination - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

09-19-2002, 04:17 PM

From some slight web research it seems gnomes, fairies, elves and other such things have their origins in English, Scottish, Germanic, Finnish myths. Thus having no single creator.

Tolkien seems to have greatly sculpted them and given them the detailed histories that make them so real. His books also have so many varied versions of the Gods and Demons (etc)that are surely originally his.

09-19-2002, 04:17 PM	#3
grae Guest Posts: n/a	From some slight web research it seems gnomes, fairies, elves and other such things have their origins in English, Scottish, Germanic, Finnish myths. Thus having no single creator. Tolkien seems to have greatly sculpted them and given them the detailed histories that make them so real. His books also have so many varied versions of the Gods and Demons (etc)that are surely originally his.