Irrationalism in 'Rings'? So sayeth he...

[hobbitlass]

Perhaps the best final word on John Ronald Reuel Tolkien and his world of Middle-earth is told by an unknown admirer, an Oxford electrician who liked Lord of the Rings, so much that he named his tools after characters from the book (his wrench was "Smaug's horde'). The man had been called in to repair some wiring in the English faculty library, and as he began, he noticed the bronze bust of Professor Tolkien by Christopher Tolkien's ex-wife Faith that had been done at the time of Tolkien's retirement. Without hesitation or embarrassment, he downed his tools, walked over to the bust and clapped his arm around the bronze shoulder.
'Well done, Professor,' he said, addressing the bust as if it were a living person. 'you've written a smashing good yarn!'

-JRR Tolkien Architect of Middle Earth. A biograohy by Daniel Grotta

And that, my friends, is what it's all about.