Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-26486187-20151031042330/@comment-25101089-20151031043638

1. Yes, I think it's pretty common knowledge that Númenor is based on Atlantis.

2. It could just be that Umbar has a real-world parallel purely by chance, since our history is full of different cultures and LOTR has comparatively few, and therefore it is likely that most of the LOTR ones would match up with some real-world one. Or perhaps you are right. Who knows?

3. Baggins was a rich family (since they owned a large hobbit-hole in an important place), so Bilbo presumably got his wealth from an inheritance.