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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You may already know this, but Tolkien took influence from Finnish in constructing the Elven tongue for The Lord of the Rings.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

And the creation story of Eru Iluvatar and his definitely-not-angelic-host singing the universe into existence is pretty close to the Suomi creation myth.