section_path: Definitions/Related terms/Mythopoeia
section_name: Mythopoeia
paragraph_text: Mythopoeia
  
  Mythopoeia (mytho- + -poeia, 'I make myth') was termed by J. R. R. Tolkien, amongst others, to refer to the "conscious generation" of mythology. It was notoriously also suggested, separately, by Nazi ideologist Alfred Rosenberg.