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This is a normal post I've got a detailed atlas that does that - you've misplaced some of those places a little
The Shire covers pretty much the whole UK, but Hobbiton is absolutely Oxford (he specified that in one of his letters, apparently).
Mordor is around Romania, Gondor is Italy / Southern France.
The Grey Havens are around West Ireland or so.
The dwarves are absolutely Jews. They've lost their homeland, they're wandering the lands, they have their own secret language and customs... He explicitly states that in one of his letters.

By the 70s, he was writing that he regretted some of the racial overtones of his work.
 (I helped save b3ta! Invisible Wizard - 9th Level Pissant, Wed 26 Jan 2022, 10:07, , Reply)
This is a normal post I thought Gondor was the Normans
Rohan is certainly the Saxons

Harad is the middle east. I'm in the middle of reading it to my 9 year old at the moment and it's clear
 (benito vaselini no not that one, Wed 26 Jan 2022, 10:53, , Reply)
This is a normal post I really waving my nerd credentials about the place now, but
Rohan may well be portrayed as Saxons in all the adaptations, but the Prof never intended that. In the Appendix "On Translation" in LotR, he says that he used Anglo-Saxon styles and language for the Rohirrim to create a sense of connection to the modern English-speaking hobbits, and he specifically said that he didn't mean for this to imply that they were connected to the real Saxons.

Here's a link to a comparison map:
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 (I helped save b3ta! Invisible Wizard - 9th Level Pissant, Wed 26 Jan 2022, 11:04, , Reply)
This is a normal post So this means that Rohan is *checks map*... Switzerland
I've gone right off them for some reason
 (benito vaselini no not that one, Wed 26 Jan 2022, 12:13, , Reply)
This is a normal post Lederhosen horse lords
It's almost like the real geography isn't featured in Middle Earth. Stupid Tolkien!
 (I helped save b3ta! Invisible Wizard - 9th Level Pissant, Wed 26 Jan 2022, 12:54, , Reply)
This is a normal post That practically demands an audio dub of the films with Mel Brooks as Gimlii
give him a free hand with the dialogue
 (Mehitabel_Itrang, Wed 26 Jan 2022, 10:57, , Reply)
This is a normal post
Brooks. +Gibson
 (Roger McGough-Pipe, Wed 26 Jan 2022, 13:13, , Reply)
This is a normal post I don't recall the orcs fighting for King George but it would certainly be colourful

(Mehitabel_Itrang, Wed 26 Jan 2022, 15:51, , Reply)
This is a normal post Ah, thank you for correcting me.
Fascinating stuff.
 (I helped save b3ta! Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Wed 26 Jan 2022, 11:27, , Reply)
This is a normal post Sorry, didn't mean to be rude.
I just loves me a bit of Tolkien pedantry.
 (I helped save b3ta! Invisible Wizard - 9th Level Pissant, Wed 26 Jan 2022, 11:43, , Reply)