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

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        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.