How did J.R.R. Tolkien create such an incredible world?

[Aragorns_girl00]

he was an excellent writer.

 

[H0bb1t4]

He masterfully and cleverly drew on such great and colorful European lore and mythology which is wonderfully incorporated into the World and races of Middle Earth which can still be seen in resonant Fantasy series today (i.e. Children of Blood and Bone novels and Avatar: The Last Airbender). Tolkien definitely tread ground in the genre which really has had an indelible impact on it and other writers who have been inspired by him and his books.