[Eol]

I personally think if Tolkien had not written such creative material, someone else would have. It may have been during tolkien's time, maybe later, but the concept would have been thought of by someone. Where he developed the ideas for middle-earth are all around us, it is in legend and myth, story and rhyme.

Or if you are a person who believes in fate or destiny, he took full opprotunity of that!