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Since the Third and Fourth Ages, according to Tolkien, were far longer ago than the origins of any of these major eastern religions, and since there is no evidence anywhere to suggest that Tolkien would ever want to include fake origins of an entire real religion in his mythology, it can safely be assumed that your theory is groundless.
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Exactly SOn of Numenor, I was just thinking of the idea of it perhaps symbolically representing those religions. (which as I mentioned earlier wasn't his writing style because such writing would be considered allegorical)
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"'Eldest, that's what I am... Tom remembers the first raindrop and the first acorn... He knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless - before the Dark Lord came from Outside.'"
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