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Tolkien often mentions in his letters that he didn't create Middle Earth but 'found' it. To him, the story mostly just unfolded, and he loved writing to fans who asked deep questions about the books and the background story behind it. Whenever someone would question why there is a misspelling of an Elven word from one chapter to the next, he would often go into a deep explanation of how that word came to be pronounced differently in this area than the other. He loved when people came up with reasons why something or someone did what they did in the books or why a seeming error is actually correct. He encouraged the deep thoughts into his work because he said that he didn't know everything about the world either. To him, Middle Earth wasn't a fictional world but another realm of existence.
Have you read his essay "On Fairy stories"? It's REALLY good, and he explains in it how while your'e reading you get sucked into the world of the story, and it becomes reality until you are interrupted and the spell is broken.
I have actually read his essay "On Fairy Stories". It was my main article for my senior thesis in college about the validity of Science Fiction and Fantasy in the literary world. I love many of the points he makes in it, especially the one about 'escape' and how it shouldn't be used in a negative aspect.