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It takes a Judeo-Christian spin on Pagan religions. Which was my point. While many modern Christians will deny that pagan pantheons were real beings, considering them totally made up, traditionally they were not seen as such by Jews and Christians in classical antiquity. They were seen as real beings with real power, but they were seen as created beings by the one true God creator. They were often seen as fallen angels, larping as gods.
In Revelation Jesus referred to the Pergamos altar of Zeus as "Satan's throne" equating Zeus with a real being with real power, just a demonic one.
Psalm 82 in particular has God sitting among a council of gods, judging them for doing wicked things and promoting evil, and as judgement they will die like men.
the book of Enoch (and Genesis 6, though many in modern Christianity try to downplay the Nephilim as being just other humans rather than Giant angel-human hybrids), which has been taken out of canon by most denominations of Christianty, goes on to portray these fallen angels as having hybrid children with humans that became the demigods of many pagan religions, ascribing them as the mighty men of legend and so on, Gilgamesh, Heracles, Perseus, Achilles, etc, these people were great heroes and were generally... half god, half man.
Modern Christians will just say those people didn't exist, or were just deified humans through myth. But Ancient Jews and Christians absolutely believed they existed, and the myths about them were half true, just that their parent wasn't a god but a fallen angel.
Tolkien's portrayal of the Valar being worshiped as gods by the people of Middle Earth, but making them distinctly created beings falls in line with this.
It uses Pagan ideas, with the Christian theology interpretation of them.
