Well Tolkien did say he meant his stories to be a sort of prehistory of the real world, but I don't think he ever asserted that anything he wrote actually happened.
Middle Earth was intended as a mythology for the English people, so there will be stories and places that we see connected to the real world and make us imagine how things might have come to be.
Well Tolkien did say he meant his stories to be a sort of prehistory of the real world, but I don't think he ever asserted that anything he wrote actually happened.
Middle Earth was intended as a mythology for the English people, so there will be stories and places that we see connected to the real world and make us imagine how things might have come to be.