User blog comment:Gott wisst/Hypothesis about why B. J. is wrong about J. R. R. Tolkien/@comment-1209332-20090710173341

The reason a Redwall fan fiction couldn't get published is because of COPYRIGHT. There is no copyright on Germanic myths. There were stories in Germanic myths before Tolkein, Blue. That's how they exist. To LPG, I never said Tolkien was wrong to do that, but I think BJ was right to say that Tolkein used lots of ideas from Germanic mythology.