>>9858714Tolkien loved his Bible, but he also loved Germanic truths.
The man made some treasures, and he was quite close.
But yeah, tolkien elves are still fictional elves.
It's simply people, ancient germanic people allowed two (well one and a group of them) synonyms for themselves.
The gods and the elves, the gods being more literal, the elves being more figurative, actually, you'd might think it's the other way around.
It also might sound pompous, but the gods were not seen as supernatural things but aspects of life, traces of these things are still found even in modern speech in German(ic, including Norwegian, Danish etc) languages.
Yes, even in English, although it doesn't look as obvious through an 'accent' lens.
Birthday, for example.
If you were German and had a thick accent and were to say Birthday, you'd say something like:
Börsdei. Note the Bör in it, its a morph of Buri a 'pagan god', but really only means son.
And in many Germanic languages, birthday is sourced to it.
geBURtstag.
Bursdag in Norwegian, etc.
It's attributed to Buri, which just means "son".
Then there's lif (the lifeforce that is in everything, cue mockery about star wars and co)
Lodr, our burning (hot) blood (this is still used in German for flames.
Lodernde Flammen = blazing flames.
Odin is just your consciousness and fleshy abode that hangs upside down for 9 'days' from a rope suspended from a 'tree of life' (Varg is jerking off to placenta mentioning now, but it's true, he's right about it.) after your daddy speared your mom and pumped his dna into her womb.
Hence his bird boys being memory and thought.
A lot of words pertaining to humanity are also bound to trees.
Family tree, roots, seed, fruit (of the loins), fertility, trunk (the body) crown (the top of the head), even more in German but comments getting long.
"lindern" (ameliorate) from Linden trees etc.
Oh yeah, pic related, irminsul, the sacred tree.
There are no trees like that, its a vagina, womb and ovaries.
