<P> In 1937, having had his manuscript for The Silmarillion rejected by a publisher who disparaged all the "eye - splitting Celtic names" that Tolkien had given his Elves, Tolkien denied the names had a Celtic origin: </P> <P> Needless to say they are not Celtic! Neither are the tales . I do know Celtic things (many in their original languages Irish and Welsh), and feel for them a certain distaste: largely for their fundamental unreason . They have bright colour, but are like a broken stained glass window reassembled without design . They are in fact "mad" as your reader says--but I don't believe I am . </P> <P> Dimitra Fimi proposes that these comments are a product of his Anglophilia rather than a commentary on the texts themselves or their actual influence on his writing, and cites evidence to this effect in her essay "' Mad' Elves and' elusive beauty': some Celtic strands of Tolkien's mythology". </P> <P> Terry Gunner notes that the titles of the Germanic gods Freyr and Freyja (Old Norse' lord' and' lady') are also given to Celeborn and Galadriel in the Lord of The Rings . </P>

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