Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-27653250-20160813154626/@comment-28813058-20161017212046

Lord Epicus! wrote:

TheodenOfRohan wrote:

Recneps wrote:

High Prince Imrahil wrote:

Recneps wrote: Can I get a $1 royalty whenever you say it? $0.50? Yes. And, no, lego.. LotR was written as a form of "origin story" for our world. It's more like a cross between Ancient Greece and Reality than another world and Reality. I tried to figure out which continent Tolkien intended Middle-earth to be, since I remember reading him talking in a book about how he thought it was similar to a modern land. It looks kind of like Africa, his homeland, but I'm not really sure.

I read something about it being that big piece of land east of the muricas, harad being africa, etc. And Minas Tirith, according to him (I think) is at the same geographical location as Oxford. MT is Oxford? Is Helm's Deep Harvard or something :-o