CL raises a point about JRRT's self-image, and JRRT himself felt more affinity with his mother's family, the Suffields, than with the East-Prussian-derived paternal ancestry - which, as the emigration to London took place in the 1770s, JRRT himself stated to have become thin by intermarriage with English. Now JRRT stated, à porpos of another topic, I believe his view on the artificial boundary drawn at English universities between "Lit" and "Lang", that he had "the hatred of apartheid in his bones" (probably an allusion to his birth in South Africa), so I seriously doubt he would have been in the least fanatical about segregating Celtic British from Anglo-Saxon; but he certainly would have considered himself to be the latter.
As to not being conscious of such influences himself, I'd guess that he conceded such a view by his own stated views about influence: that things may be taken up consciously, but that they then "sink into the mould (or was that mulch?)" where they are by necessity transformed in some way, to "pop up" at a later time, by then unrecognizable as far as that original source is concerned. The term "mental furniture" is often used for such things..
As to the originality of Norse Mythology - and for that matter, Celtic Mythology, too - we have very little idea what the "Germanic" tribes (as imprecise a term as the "Keltoi" first mentioned by the classical Greeks) of well over 2000 years ago believed. The first written sources on them - Greek and Roman - were those of their opponents, so sure to be both biased and often uncomprehending. What we now consider to be somewhat "authentic" sources, the Icelandic Eddas and Sagas, or on the Celtic side the Ulster Cycle centering on Conchobar mac Nessa and Cú Chulainn, the Fenian Cycle of Fionn mac Cumhaill, his son Oisin and grandson Oscar, or the Welsh Mabinogion, are all to be found in surviving manuscripts from perhaps the 12th to the 14th century. So very much at a point when both the British Isles and Iceland had become Christianized, and one must probably assume some re-writing, additions and deletions by scribes later than the "original authors", if such ever existed. The work JRRT himself probably know best, Beowulf, is more in the way of a legend than a mythology, as, while "The Monsters" of various shapes are part of the story, Odin, Thor & Co. are noticeably absent.
As to the origin of the name "Tom Bombadil", it was the name of a "Dutch doll" once owned by JRRT's second son Michael; how the doll came by that name is something I have no idea about.
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