This mysterious ability may not have changed Middle-earth, but it was certainly ... The baking of lembas was an art of the Valar passed down to the Elves during their time in Valinor.

how the Elves envisioned the movement of time and history, and how predestined the first Elvish couples were. In Part II of the Nature of Middle-earth, “Body, Mind, and Spirit,” Tolkien ...