Ah, delicious ambiguity. One of the things i love most about Tolkien! He makes you think...DID this world exist? The truth is...you'll never really know four sure...maybe it did once, before the lands were broken and changed, before dinosaurs, before even prehistory as we know it. We'd never know...of course, the reasonable explanation is, of course it wasn't physically real, because Tolkien created it all. But nonethe less, it perpetually makes you wonder, WHAT IF? It'll always be a wonderful prospect to entertain. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
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