Is Tolkien Making Me Rethink My Primary Story Universe?

I think I’ve mentioned here briefly before that I finally have a name for my cohesive, overarching storyverse, to which perhaps 75% of my stories, both published and planned, belong. It’s The Veiled Worlds, a reference to the fact that the fey live in The Realms, a world veiled from ours, and ours veiled from theirs, and yet both mutually accessible in the right sort of ways.

It’s a permutation, in many ways, of slightly step-sideways Christian mythology, because in seeking to avoid appropri...