Wasn't this one of Tolkien's weird things? Like he thought that the Norman invasion of England had destroyed the authentic culture of the English and he set out to create Middle Earth as an effort to recreate a shared folklore.
It's not just that they destroyed the culture. To this day a lot of the land in England controled by the descendants of William's army; to some extent today's inequality goes back directly to the Norman Conquest.
Wasn't this one of Tolkien's weird things? Like he thought that the Norman invasion of England had destroyed the authentic culture of the English and he set out to create Middle Earth as an effort to recreate a shared folklore.
It's not just that they destroyed the culture. To this day a lot of the land in England controled by the descendants of William's army; to some extent today's inequality goes back directly to the Norman Conquest.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/dec/17/high-house-prices-inequality-normans