I think you're very very right. I've always thought the Books were based on real facts. Middle Earth is Europe, Asia and Africa, the Sunlands (Easterness) are the Americas and Valinor...
Let's look at Melkor. He, frankly, is the devil. Now, was he based on the Lucifer myth, or was the Lucifer myth based on Melkor?
*Just a hunch* [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]
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