>>786858George Lucas says again and again that he based the empire off of the Nazis and the Romans, and we all know what J K Rowling's like, while Tolkien supported Franco in the war and the whole Numenor seems lifted out of Theosophy: the superior Dunedain race settled in Middle-Earth after their homeland in the Ocean to the Westsunk beneath the waves. It's almost Volkisch.
desu we should have claimed lotr as our own a long time ago.