Do you ever feel that middle-earth really exists?

[Kaiserin]

Valinor could be a planet in our solarsystem, or one that we don't know of (canyou imagine how cool it would be if the first "aliens were Elves?)

That's a funny thought... But look, how can they travel to another planet on a boat? [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
I've heard that Tolkien thought up the mortal lands of ME to be England. Valinor would then be the Americas.

I imagine it as being another planet in a faraway galaxy

I thought about that too, but I realized that Arda has the same stars and constellations in its sky as we know the earth to have today. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] Just points to say that it is our planet.