Editing The Poetic Edda (section)

==So...Tolkien's a hack then?==
...what?

'''''No!'''''

The point of this page was not to decry Tolkien as an unoriginal hack who just straight up stole all of his content from other people's work.

This page's point was mainly to show GMs and fa/tg/uys alike that everything comes from something. Tolkien may have borrowed many elements from this book, but he was still a talented writer. His world-building, word-smithing and characterisation are practically unbeatable in their quality and very few writers, even 80 years later, have been able to match or even compete with what he created. 

On top of all of this, literally every fantasy book written after LotR in the western world owes, at the very least, SOME credit to [[Tolkien]], who in himself owes at least SOME credit to this book, and this book owes at least SOME credit to the folk tales it was itself derived from, and that probably owes itself to the mythology of germanic paganism which, assuming the anthropological theory of the Proto-indo-eurpeans is true, owes credit to the larger pantheon of Proto-Indo-European gods which is theorised to have spread as far as India, Ancient Greece and the Slavic countries, and then those gods were probably derived from some other gods before them, too.

TL;DR: Moral of the story is, don't get too caught up in thinking your ideas aren't original, just don't be a [[That Guy|plagiarist]].