I never accepted the mythopoeia I see accreting around the Liosan.
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HE has reached a stage of culture where such mythopoeia has become impossible.
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Whatever the limitations of his own myth-making, Tolkien's genius as a storyteller rekindled the flame of mythopoeia for generations of writers who followed.
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Tolkien borrowed the Greek term "mythpoesis" to describe the task of modern myth-making, and so the literary concept of mythopoeia was born.
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But as works of modern mythology, the art Tolkien called "mythopoeia", both Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit are open to serious criticism.