


Some scholars point out the correlation between Mirkwood of Middle Earth, as depicted in The Hobbit, and Germany's famously beautiful and haunted Black Forest.

I found the 3rd disc in the Lord of the Rings collection in a box of discs tonight and soon found myself wondering what was represented by Rohan if LotR was intended as an interpretation of Hitler's ascendancy and the resultant European politics, as seen from the perspective of the British Isles, perhaps to Tolkien, his Shire.
