Acceptance of mythology?

[HerenIstarion]

You won't understand if I tell you anyway, so why bother to ask?

I haven't got such a feeling even for the Hobbit, as for the rest, Tolkien went to some considerable pains to explain the so called 'unnatural' things in his HoME series afterwards, really. Try customs of the Eldar, for instance. Wonder why lembas is so sustaining - look into it. etc.