Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24.20.45.251-20161103165218/@comment-26397825-20161104061406

You wanna know something interesting? I read a letter that was printed in the front of an edition of the Silmarillion. JRR Tolkien wrote the letter. In it, he talks about how he didn't write Lord of the Rings because he wanted to impart some great message or teach some lesson, despite its larger than life tales and epic-level adventure. He wrote it because he was disappointed in the origin folktales of England and wanted to make his own.

It wasn't written for some epic scale life lesson or educational reason. It was one man who was disappointed in the fairytales he was hearing, and wanted to write something entertaining that could wash away that disappointment.