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He was an occultist.

Pinocchio: pino = pine, occhio = eye
Means "pine eye". You can't just make your point by making stuff up or guessing at it.

Their source is some guy named Robert Kearney, whose only known publication is Twitter and other social media. Your link to Mysterious Universe is a pay site, so I found a free location. I'll give it a listen later, but frankly it all sounds like hogwash, especially since the tags at MU for that podcast include aliens, extraterrestrials, UFO, and worst of all Steven Greer. They might as well tie in tarot and the Priory of Sion.


Well, imagine that. Well ... DUUUUUH! Of course it's fantasy. He was writing proto-myth, not literal history. He was very clear about that. I'm sure you've read some of his work, so you must be aware of that.

Holy crap. I listened to that podcast and found it to be a complete waste of time. Two Australians, who aren't identified on their own web site, blather on about a bunch of things completely unrelated to Tolkien. They go off on a tangent about what Jay Weidner said about Tolkien and tying in someone named Fulcanelli (whoever that is), even though it's completely irrelevant to any discussion about what Tolkien actually write.

None of them actually discuss Tolkien the man, his work, his extraordinary gift for languages, and his own stated intentions for writing his mythic history. Weidner come close when he speculates "To Tolkien, Lord of the Rings was a mythical reimagining of the history of Europe 6,000 ­7,000 years ago." However, this seems to contradict the other nonsense Weidner conjectures about in the rest of that article, where he just focuses on the ring and ignores the rest of his vast body of work, much of which had nothing to do with the ring.

To understand Tolkien's work, one needs to understand that he was writing mythology for England. He was an Englishman first and last and that's how he saw himself. He was a polylinguist and spent his lifetime studying the ancient writings of old mythologies in languages that don't exist any longer. He learned some of them for their value as history and myth, and some, like Welsh and Finnish, for their beauty.

The two books that had the most lasting effect on him were Joseph Wright’s "Primer of the Gothic Language" and the Finnish book "Kalevala" or "Land of Heroes". No one can show any documented source that he "just found" a book written in ancient Scandinavian in the basement of the Oxford library. If such a book existed, it wouldn't be the original, and it would have been copied and re-copied over thousands of years, and even then, such an ancient book would have been in the reference library where would have had to ask permission to read it.

Jay Weidner is a Nazi-obsessed jew nutjob, and these two podcast idiots are repeating stories they heard from this nutjob who can't cite his claims about Tolkien. This is all third-hand evidence, a story told to a friend of a friend of a friend without any substantiation.

That is sort of the point, you are grounded to this reality and close minded to the possibility of more.

It is a debate in the world of writing on if channeling or divination is a factual source for inspiration or if it is all just the reorganization of previous ideas as put together by ones own unique brain patterns.