[Lord of Angmar]

Let me address a few points here, mostly pertaining to Sauron 666's post.

First of all, let me get this out of the way: I do not believe the theory put forth above. Nor am I in any way an expert in the realm of physics. I did not mean to solidify with hard evidence a claim that parallel universes exist. I merely provided an example used by physicists and stated that it is generally accepted that variations of our own universe exist in dimensions that we cannot access. I do no believe that there is or ever was a Middle Earth, for the record, and my theory about psychological variables leading to the off-branching of new universes was meant more as a philosophical argument than scientific.

Its highly probable that there are other forms of life beyond our knowledge (ie out there in the universe) and its possible a society similair to ME could've evolved, however i find it even more likely that life evolving outside of our sphere of knowledge would be completely incomprehensible to us and would never come close to ressembling life on earth

This statement is ignorant of the point of my post. I was not suggesting that there is a planet out there like Middle Earth in our own universe, or that there are beings identical or similar to us within our own universe, since I do not know and cannot argue such a thing. However, Carl Sagan said that there are more possible DNA combinations than there are atoms in the universe, in which case life could have evolved millions of times over that resembles or is recognizable by human beings. That was not my point. My point was that, if parallel universes do exist which encompass every possible scenario and variable ever, and even scenarios that we cannot understand or explain, then there is the possibility of a world within a universe similar to that of Tolkien's imagination.

I apologize for my lengthy 'scientific dithering'. I was simply trying to set up a background for a theory. I did not set out to definitively prove that there are parallel universes or that there is a world like Tolkien's. I believe the theory of parallel universes, and the second theory I was merely putting forth for Tolkien fans to ponder.