Did JRRT encourage new ME stories?

[davem]

Originally Posted by Raynor

I fail to see the grounds for your generalisation, and presenting opinion as fact is not helpful. In that section, Tolkien talks about the fact that the "personality [of mythological heroes] can only be derrived from a person", that all the aspects, even those of gods, are created by humans.
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Of course. Just because a scientist shows how life originated on earth, it doesn't disprove your theory that it originated on the moon & was carried here by space monkeys - because while he spelled out how it originated on earth, he didn't actually write the words 'Life did not originate on the moon & there are no such things as space monkeys,'