Considering that Tolkien wasn't so primitive he surely wouldn't do direct analogies to anything - otherwise his books would be satire, not epic.
>inspirations and even cutting out motifs straight up from history
It is also interesting question: can you write something big and (somewhat) realistic without inspiration and allusions from real life? When you construct imaginary world that looks like real, you still subconsciously use something from history or your experience (that is also mostly history).
And to add to the story - here is another article (translated by google, sadly), about mapping of Tolkien world to real things. Author quotes some person about pre Ice Age Europe (map is similar to Middle Earth) and about Austria-Hungary as inspiration (because Tolkien fought in WW1).
02/08/2021 (Mon) 19:54:01
No.42508
del
