Tolkien and Psychedelics

[William Cloud Hicklin]

Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow they will all be illegal......


Back to 'dope.' No. Not even a ghost of a prayer. Tolkien was, like, totally a square.

He goes on to say that he brought the original legend of Numenor "into relation with the main mythology."

But was apparently mistaken in his recollection, or expressed himself obscurely. See HME V The Lost Road- the very first Numenor writings were from the start firmly placed within the Silmarillion mythos.

But, 'expressing himself obscurely,' he might just conceivably have meant by 'the main mythology' The Lord of the Rings, which certainly modified the lower end of the Numenor legend.