Magical Middle Earth

[Sleepy Ranger]

Quoting from David Colbert's The Magical World of the Lord of the Rings

Far too many people try to compare J.R.R Tolkien and J.K Rowling, just because both of them tell stories about imaginary worlds inhabited by wizards. Not much about their stories is similar. Harry Potter lives in a world full of magic: spells, wands, potions and flying broomsticks. In Tolkien's world, the wizards (and others) perform very little magic. In fact, Tolkien denies that magic is important in his world.

Theres a whole chapter on this and it ultimately says that there can be no more magic in ME, and that its not exactly magic in the first place. If you'd ike I'll give you some interesting parts of that chapter. But as far as I'm concerned LoTR needed no more magic than it already possesed.