I doubt if there would have been much gain and I hope the, evidently long but undefined, gap * in time between the Fall of Barad-dûr and our Days is sufficient for ‘literary credibility’, even for readers acquainted with what is known or surmised of ‘pre-history’. I could have fitted things in with greater versimilitude, if the story had not become too far developed, before the question ever occurred to me. All I can say is that, if it were ‘history’, it would be difficult to fit the lands and events (or ‘cultures’) into such evidence as we possess, archaeological or geological, concerning the nearer or remoter part of what is now called Europe though the Shire, for instance, is expressly stated to have been in this region (I p. As far as I know it is merely an imaginative invention, to express, in the only way I can, some of my (dim) apprehensions of the world. May I say that all this is ‘mythical’, and not any kind of new religion or vision. In October 1958, Tolkien wrote in Letter No. Tolkien wrote are imaginary adventures that he has placed through literary license about 6,000 years in the past. Many readers cannot help but ask if Middle-earth is real but the stories J.R.R. Q: Where and When Did the Hobbit Take Place?ĪNSWER: Contrary to what you may have read on the Internet, the events of the Hobbit do not take place in an imaginary world.

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