Annunfuiniel, still doesn't explain why something which Tolkien considers an essential aspect of our nature as created beings doesn't even get a mention. He wouldn't have to have related any of the tales of the subcreators, just mentioned that there were sub creators in ME. Of course, there is the danger of a kind of 'infinite regression - the sub created worlds of the sub creators would also have to contain subcreated worlds, ad infinitum
('It was a dark & stormy night.
We sat by the calcined wall
It was said to the Taleteller
"Tell us a tale" & the Tale ran thus:
"It was a dark & stormy night.....'
-David Jones, The Anathemata)
But I wonder why Tolkien never approached the area at all.
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