Do we live in Middle-earth?

[Demloth of Dol Amroth]

I think that it is more like MA was forgotton.

how right ye are, willie, there are times when i think that nobody really cares about that interesting time of history anymore-if they even care about history at all. though i don't know if the point you made on tolkien building on the middle ages is accurate-did you read some correspondence or personal memoirs of tolkien, and did they explicitly say this? i haven't, so do excuse me if you have and you do know.