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First, great opening piece from another Tolkien fan.

Second, you're not wrong about Tolkien. Tolkien's primary work about Middle-Earth actually wasn't the Lord of the Rings, it was the Silmarillion. He spent his entire life writing it and even when he died, he was still making changes to it (his son Christopher had to essentially put together a completed work). Tolkien literally built the world first and put the characters and the story in later.

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