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   From: djheydt@kithrup.com   
      
   In article ,   
   Steve Hayes   wrote:   
   >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.   
      
   Exactly.  _THS_ was published in 1945, and a note at the   
   beginning says that its internal date is "vaguely 'after the   
   war.'"   
      
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   Dorothy J. Heydt   
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