[Guildo]

I read a an Article i cant remember where but it Bassicaly said Tolkien's main desire was to make this sound like a story that has actualy happened, but long before our recorded history "Before Oliphants Evolved to Elephants for example" he also was very interested in Anglo Saxon Mythology and History, SO i speculated if these stories where true Tolkien intended them to take place in England, Spain, Scotland, and Ireland area before there colonization and urbanization probably a couple hundred years Prior of Homers tales of The Iliad and the Oddessy, the Trojan wars, and Beowolf.\

But thats just my two Lembas worth.