How J.R.R. Tolkien Almost Ruined His Middle-Earth Mythology

Tolkien changed a lot of material in his legendarium over the years, but late in life he almost scrapped the entire cosmology to fit with real world history. Why did he go down this road, and what are some of the implications?

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