"just a book" or "a descriptive treatise on an imaginary ecosphere " ?

[Imladris]

I think you misunderstood me, Gwaihir. I don't believe that ME existed or that anything he wrote about it existed. I guess my sorrow is do to the fact that the series "ended" and that it doesn't go on forever. Like what happened to Gimli and Legolas? Sure they took the ship to the Valinor but what happened in between? What happened to Sam, Pippin, and Merry? You can tell a book is good when you want more that what is written. And yes, I am sad when the elves go away because they happen to be my favorite race and I can't imagine Middle-Earth without them...it wouldn't seem to be ME at all!

Beren, and many other people here, are right about what they said of Tolkien. Hope I made myself clear about the first paragraph...