Questions to ask j. r.r Tolkien

“what influenced the imagery and emotional backing for Lord of the Rings?”

“If you were writing LOTR today, would you change anything? If so, what would you change?”

”what gave you inspiration for the Hobbits?”

Explanation:

i think the answer is hope it

imparadis't in one anothers arms  

the happier eden, shall enjoy their fill  

of bliss on bliss, while i to hell am thrust,  

where neither joy nor love, but fierce desire,  

among our other torments not the least,  

still unfulfill'd with pain of longing pines;  

yet let me not forget what i have gain'd  

from their own mouths; all is not theirs it seems:  

one fatal tree there stands of knowledge call'd,  

forbidden them to taste: knowledge forbidd'n?  

suspicious, reasonless. why should their lord  

envie them that? can it be sin to know,