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Originally Posted by Eönwë
Well, there may be something in these Mayan prohecies. They say that we'll be suffering from a lot of earthquakes around that time, and look what's happening now. 
I don't actually believe them, but I find it a bit disconcerting. |
Life is disconcerting. Tolkien's world provides a mechanism for foretelling, but our world does not. Even the physics mind experiments of time travel (requiring wormholes or black holes and incredible energies) only let you move forward in time...which really isn't true either as, as I understand it, time just kind of passes more slowly for you relative to those you leave behind.
Anyway, this means that information from the future is not available to us. If it were, we would have avoided some of our more blatant stupidity, and I would have purchased Google stock.
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I think that Tolkien definitely knew a bit of Mayan mythology.
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It's possible, but did he believe that in 2012 the world would end?