> my history sucks so i'm gonna go make up my own

what was the point of this thread

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>>2159195

thats what robert e howard did, not tolkien.

JRR just loved language and mythology

>>2159195
>I want to make some languages but I don't have an excuse to
>fuck it, I'll just create the best fantasy world known to man as an excuse

Was he autistic? He has a very weird affect

>>2159237
Howard is so cool desu. Sword & sorcery is much cooler than HURR SAVE THE WORLD high fantasy neckbeardery.

>>2159262
"I have too much work lately", quite literally in all of his letters...

>>2159237
>Thereafter, until his death by suicide at age 30
Shit, didn't know this.

>>2159237
>thats what robert e howard did, not tolkien
Not him, but, no he actually thought England didn't have a mythology or stories of its own, so he wanted to create one for hist country.

>>2159331
probably

>>2159237
Tolkien literally said he created Middle Earth because of Englands lack of mythology.

>>2160237
Not a lack of mythology, England and Britain in general has plenty of that, both from the indigenous celts and later germanics.
What he felt was lacking was a grand epic, like the Iliad, Beowulf, Gilgamesh etc.

>>2160255
>Celtic mythology is English
>england was lacking an epic like beowulf

just kill yourself already. Arthurian myth is so Welsh it smells of fucking sheep, and Beowulf is so English it can form a one man queue

He was trying to make an English mythology, not history you cuck.

>>2159195
In our country revisionist are everywhere.

Surely you aren't accusing the man who rediscovered the red book and gave us the knowledge we now have on the three first ages of this world and what that was before of having made stuff up?

>>2160373
there are 4 more

>>2160426
Yes but there's very little of that preserved in the works Tolkien or his son rediscovered.