Elves as Nephites

Having engaged so much over the past year or so with attempts to read Tolkien in the light of the Book of Mormon and vice versa, as pioneered by Daymon Smith and developed by Bill Wright (who has deleted his blog and disappeared) and Leo, I was interested to run across this video series by Josh Choate and Dustin Grady (who appear to be associated with the Phil Davis "Doctrine of Christ" movement), which links Tolkien with the Book of Mormon independently, and in a very different way.

The basic idea is that the Nephite ships of Hagoth ended up not in Polynesia (as current Brighamite tradition has it) but in Frisia, where they influenced Germanic and Anglo-Saxon culture and have come down in legend as the Elves. It is the third video that discusses the Tolkien angle, but it is probably best to listen to the first two as well to understand the background.

They get several details wrong, both about Tolkien and about European history and linguistics, but the overall concept is intriguing. They place the Nephites in North America, so their story can't be directly harmonized with the interstellar direction Bill and Leo have taken things, but I thought it was interesting to see someone else independently discover/invent a Mormon-Tolkien connection.