Tolkien and Arendelle - A Quote From Lance Owens

Tolkien and Jung were going through this intense experience at about the same time. Tolkien was having these auditory hallucination, Elvin words. He was hearing their stories from the elves and writing them down. Jung saw this visionary material that came to him between 1914 and 1920 as the precious stone that he did work for the rest of his life. And in Tolkien's case, he has this really fascinating kind of idea of subcreation because famously he would say, like if he needed to know a word or how far something was from somewhere else, I must go and find out,. So there was some kind of sense that it was material that was already extant before he created it.