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This strikes me more as referencing Tolkien's attitude towards myths and Christianity in particular:
Now what Dyson and Tolkien showed me was [... that] the story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us in the same way as the others, but with this tremendous difference that it really happened.
(From a letter to Arthur Greeves in October ...
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