Lord of the Rings: UFOs and Aliens

Tolkien was writing how a people’s understanding of the world changes in the mythological sense, as their understanding expands, the wonder and magic disappears, their explanations changes.

Okay, I got a new theory.

The Fellowship entered Lothlórien and was brought up into the "trees", but actually the Elves were Aliens and the Trees and the entire Woods was a dimension contained within their UFO, created by the power of Galadriel's Ring, which explains why the forces of evil could not enter, for it was an enclosed space divorced from ordinary reality except by those with higher dimensional powers (aka, Sauron).

Eventually, the Elves sailed West to Valinor, and Middle-Earth was reshaped into a spherical planetoid as it "lowers" its vibration, descending into a grosser, coarser state of being, leaving behind many of its higher dimensional species, but some was pulled down as well, the Hobbits becoming Homo Floresiensis.

In the lower dimensions, the Elves are perceived by humans as Aliens, and their Ships and Realms as UFOs (self-propelling nexuses of Elven will).

To this day, these UFOs flicker between Earth's Atmosphere and Valinor, travelling the "straight path" that only the Elves can perceive, but to the humans of the later ages like our modern world, they appear to be zigzagging erratic objects, moving in unnatural ways beyond any form of aerospace logic. Their form also only slightly more advanced than the perciever's understanding of technology. Early UFO and Alien sightings took the form of Fairies and Fairy Hills (closer in nature to the original Elvish form in Arda), but later on became advanced Airships and finally so-called Spaceships.

This isn't completely bonkers, because remember, Tolkien's cosmology undergoes massive transformations. Trees became Sun and Moon. Flat World becomes a spherical world. Magical wonders disappear replaced by mundane reality. The world is not as it seems.

This is even less crazier once we accept that Tolkien was writing how a people’s understanding of the world changes in the mythological sense, as their understanding expands, the wonder and magic disappears, their explanations changes. This parallels how all real world perception of our mythological past works. And Aliens and Cryptids and all of that are rightly rooted in folklore and mythology, a continuation of past tropes, and phenomena (because UFOs are real, governments admit it worldwide, we just don’t know what a UFO is, but our stories about fairies and gods and aliens— these things are our subjective perception).

Melkor (Morgoth) taking the form of the Black Knight Satellite in Near Polar Earth Orbit, awaiting the day he breaks the Door of Night and re-enters Arda to initiate Dagor Dagorath— the apocalyptic final Battle of Tolkien’s mythology. A battle fought with nukes and lasers of course.