"The Lord Of The Rings" actually happened?

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2. And they missed the most obvious link for loons to follow - Tolkein called Numenor 'Atlante'

because the whole thing about a powerful island empire to the west that ends up swallowed by the ocean is too much of an obvious steal to not be acknowledged.

It's bizarre to decide the Rings must refer to Saturn's rings, though; to just take a very different use of the word and say "see? That proves it all" is a stretch even for these kind of people. You think they'd have said it shows all the myths that Wagner's Ring Cycle is based on are true, since at least that's about the kind of ring that can be worn.