(October 3, 2014 at 3:19 pm)Chas Wrote:(August 6, 2014 at 11:23 am)Bibliofagus Wrote: I believe Tolkien claimed he translated The Lord of the Rings from an older manuscript. Would this mean the Nazgul were real? Or that there even was something for him to translate?
Um, no, he didn't. That is simply part of the tale itself.
The book claims it is a translation of the red book of Westmarch.
This red book has been lost to time... It told of how humans came to be the dominant sentient beings in Middle Earth.