Mood

Through my childhood, everytime I read a story, I wrote another story about how the first could have been real. I read mostly fiction so this worked out quite well.

The Lord of the Rings was no exception, I imagined hundreds of ways that somehow, Middle-Earth was really real and that all the dwarfs, hobbits and elves dwindled out of excistance. So what if man kind had no record of ever living in Gondor, or Numenor, it could happen.

What has your mind told you to make Tolkiens imagination come to life. I envisioned Tolkien at a young age learning magic or a spell to go back in time. He arrives in the Shire in the 4th age and through his travelling, he descovers the secrets and writes his books which everyone believes are fiction.

A little far-fetched, but it make sense to me. This also has something to do with Numenor being Atlantis and Valinor disapearing and forming Heaven. It all clicks if you use your imagination.