Do you ever feel that middle-earth really exists?

[Lyta_Underhill]

The lecturer stated that all things we can imagine come from the mind of God the Creator. Since all things in the physical world are made by God the Creator, Middle-Earth does exist some where in some time.

A lovely sentiment, and probably true! (Or false! Depends, on belief I suppose!) [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] I've also heard it said that all realities exist together in different "dimensions." Even time is not linear as we understand it. Perhaps this very story is being lived out at this very instant in the very space we occupy, and we pick up on it subconsciously, or collectively. (Tolkien perhaps picked up on it and wrote it all down!) Perhaps the Barrowdowns and other fan gatherings are just forums to express this shared reality...(I really state the obvious don't I?) [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

As I found in Tolkien's Letters, there was one who believed that Tolkien had been inspired by visual images that he had seen, and upon learning this was not his inspiration, proceeded to show him pictures that were very Middle Earthish and told him "You don't think YOU made all that up, did you?" Perhaps a personal observation of a collective reality...(need to dig out that letter one of these days)

To sum up, I believe there is no way that Middle Earth can NOT be real! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Cheers,
Lyta (working hard on that "Crackpot in Residence" title)

[ August 10, 2003: Message edited by: Lyta_Underhill ]