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While there certainly are many fakers calling themselves ‘Pagan’ – while knowing little to nothing about it in reality – there are also plenty of perfectly knowledgeable scholars, archeologists, linguists and similar who put the Arkansas and Nebraska ‘hicks’ of northern Europe on a par with any other culture of their time. Sounds like you’ve never heard of them or their findings, which isn’t surprising if Fakeypedia, TheirTube or anything resembling the mainstream media are your sources of information.
Not sure what that rambling paragraph about ‘royal praybooks’ and Elves was all about, but it is also not surprising if Christians write about Elves as ‘supernatural critters’ and completely misunderstand – or deliberately falsify – that image. It’s what they do.
I also have no idea what you mean by the Norse ‘outing themselves as savages’ via their sagas or runic inscriptions. I’d say the Romans outed themselves as cucks by accepting an imported alien death cult as their state religion.
I did not say or mean that Elves have to be ‘Welsh’ or ‘Finnish’ because Tolkien used those languages as models, I simply meant that he clearly wasn’t thinking Japan, China, Mongolia or whatever when he wrote about Elves.