Smith of Wootton Major in Middle Earth?

[Lalwendë]

Originally Posted by Bethberry

Lalwendë suggests that Arda and faerie are different aspects of the same thing—what is this thing?

Originally Posted by me

faerie, which is at once a different world and the same world as Arda.

Faerie is nobody's creation, but Arda is a literary creation. Yet as Faerie exists in our imaginations (it could in fact be real, just that we cannot quite grasp how to get there), and as Arda is the product of an imagination, further developed by many other readers' imaginations, Arda must have something of faerie contained within.