No, Robert E. Howard did not inspire J. R. R. Tolkien

I found the notion of Robert E. Howard influencing J. R. R. Tolkien to be uninformed speculation. I did some digging and put this video together.
Correction: 05:25 Howard died June 11, 1936, not January
Ryan Condal interview: www.ign.com/articles/house-of...
The Tolkien Society's Timeline: www.tolkiensociety.org/author...
Was Tolkien a Robert E. Howard fan by D. M. Ritzlin: dmrbooks.com/test-blog/2019/3...
Why Calling Tolkien's work a mythology for England is wrong and misleading by Luke Shelton: luke-shelton.com/2022/02/12/w...
The Collector's Index to Weird Tales: amzn.to/3ycanrA
Weird Tales Editions: www.philsp.com/visco/Magazines...
Weird Tales British Editions: vaultofevil.proboards.com/thr...
SF Encyclopedia: sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wei...
ISFDB: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi
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