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Originally Posted by Bęthberry
.Yet, yet. Writers don't have to aspire to the commercial aspects of publication to have the desire for a readership. Why would Tolkien have spent so many hours with the Inklings reading their works aloud to each other if he wrote only to satisfy the urge for creating? .
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Of course - right from his early manhood, as John Garth shows, he had a desire to create something for 'England'. He wanted to create a mythology he could dedicate to his country.
Yet, yet. What would his life have been without his creation of Middle earth? It wasn't what he wanted to
do with the Mythology that gave his life meaning, that allowed him to become the fulfilled human being that he bacame. It was the creation itself - the creative process. Even if no-one had read his work it would have had its effect on him. I suspect he created Middle earth because he could, in the end, do no other.
The Legendarium was his response to 'life, the universe & everything' his personal '42' if you like.