@listelian oh, interesting! not to mention ambitious. as a _very_ long time fan of Tolkien it pains me to admit this but I've never been able to succeed in convincing myself that his more self-consciously mythical work ever really, well, worked. So I've rather wondered whether _anybody_ could do it, seeing that a guy steeped in the literature of the period couldn't quite pull it off himself; I certainly didn't trust J. Random Fantasywriter to do it!