I would not put it as strongly as a fevered imagination - more a knowledge of the history of the place and a sensitivity to it . But if I think that the stones were speaking then I would say no. But this is my feeling .... I don't think it is a "right or wrong" issue. Just a question of how far you suspend your disbelief.
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“But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.”
Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace
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