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>maybe J.R.R. Tolkien did make it all up
If you read the book from cover to cover you'd know that that's impossible - nobody could be that insane and intelligent at the same time. That is why it has endured - there is a testimony one gets from reading it. You just need to divorce it from the heresy that it is from ancient Mordor when it is actually from Lothlórien.