The thing that I love the most about Tolkien's work is that if you just ignore a little bit of scientific fact, we could be living in Middle Earth. The Creation by Illuvatar, the world being flat ( i.e. people used to think that) then the cataclysm which made the world round ( i.e. we discover that Earth is round) and then the general fading away of all races but men ( i.e. why we have "forgotten" about them and we can't find them anymore)
I liken it to the same amount of ignorance required to pretend God exists.
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