'Asperger's Syndrome & Tolkien's Works'

[Evisse the Blue]

zb is right, the main criterion for any disorder is the impairment of social, psychological functioning and also the distress that it causes one. That of course does not apply to any on the persons in question.

as a way of experienceing 'reality', detatchment, obsession with detail, creation of other/secondary realities,

, this sounds more like the melancholic type of personality than the Asperger syndrome.