Tolkien Legendarium

myth:tolkien_legendarium

Tolkien built Middle-earth from the old stuff itself: the dwarf-names and the wandering wizard out of the Norse Eddas, the dragon Smaug and the hall-burning out of Beowulf, the doomed Turin out of the Kalevala's Kullervo, and a world-tree cosmology behind it all. The great gathering of myth into modern fantasy. — modern literature