[Sleeping Beauty]

I imagine Tolkien escaped there in some point of his life to get away from things in this world. Could you imagine a world so rich in his mind? We have lots of images he and his son Christopher brought to us, no one had the intensity that he had. He named ever flower, the types of grass and trees, and every race. That must have been truly an expierence. But creating fantastical worlds and expierences is the only way to write fantasy. You cannot just base it in this world because there is no grounds for magic to happen. Magic is not the basis for this society, and unless you're just really darn good, you cannot make it seem like it. Besides, wouldn't it be a little odd for Gondor to sound something like like New York City? O_o;;;