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   Mike Schilling to Steve Hayes   
   Re: Tolkien trained as a WW2 codebreaker   
   18 Sep 09 11:05:22   
   
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   From: mscottschilling@hotmail.com   
      
   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.   
      
   If the True West is Numinor, perhaps the Only Apparent West is   
   Phenomenor.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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