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   Steve Hayes to All   
   Re: Tolkien trained as a WW2 codebreaker   
   18 Sep 09 19:48:04   
   
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   From: hayesmstw@hotmail.com   
      
   On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:03:25 +0200, Öjevind Lång    
   wrote:   
      
   >"Dorothy J Heydt"  skrev i meddelandet   
   >news:Kq549t.n1F@kithrup.com...   
   >   
   >[snip]   
   >   
   >> Lewis didn't know much Quenya.  If any.  Remember he couldn't   
   >> spell Numenor.  (Which is Sindarin anyway, I think.)   
   >   
   >That's right. In "That Hideous Strength" he called it "Numinor".   
      
   When were they written and when were they published?   
      
   Perhaps at the time Lewis wrote THS he had never seen Numenor written, but   
   only heard Tolkien read it aloud at an Inklings.   
      
      
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