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Originally Posted by Johnny1A.2
Apparently, both JRRT and his son Christopher were haunted by a dream of a land being drowned under an immense wave, which they both had independently of each other. This seems to have been a root of the Numenor stories, too.
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I borrowed that, years ago, for my Gods and Monsters covert supers campaign—only I called the Tolkienian philologist Ransom. In fact I planted several Tolkienian elements there: Ransom getting an ancient Near Eastern book with pictures of sailing ships more advanced than anything the ancient world had; Adolf Hitler being taken on a ghostly U-boat to sunken Atlantis to retrieve a gold ring that would give him power over others' minds; one of the PCs, exposed to the One Ring, taking on the appearance of her demonic rider, the spirit of a First Age noldo—but a noldo interpreted by Weta, along the lines of their mermaids for Peter Pan, somewhat. Tolkien has a lot of potential as a horror writer, as Lovecraft has potential as a mythopoeic writer.
Bill Stoddard