It has been considered a "pure mythopoeia". Mythopoiesis is literally myth-making (see Mythopoeia and Mythopoeic thought). This view was expressed in his poem and essay entitled "Mythopoeia". Tolkien also quotes from his own poem "Mythopoeia". This required his dramaturgy to proceed through mythopoeia, which turns explicit in his last plays. These secular Christmas stories could be classified as mythopoeia (invented mythology), or Christian allegories. The term mythopoeia is from Greek , "myth-making". The poem popularized the word "mythopoeia" as a literary and artistic endeavor and genre. Both aforementioned tracks saw a re-release on the "Mythopoeia" compilation in 2000. The word "mythopoeia" means myth-making, and has been used in English since at least 1846. Mythopoeia is a poem by J.R.R. Tolkien. Many of their contemporary scholars accepted this mythopoeia as authentic Estonian mythology. "Conscious generation" of mythology was termed "mythopoeia" by, amongst others, J. R. R. Tolkien. "Mythopoeia" was added to the 1988 edition (). In mythopoeia, an artificial mythology created by the writers of prose or other fiction.