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   From: hayesmstw@hotmail.com   
      
   On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:22:38 GMT, djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote:   
      
   >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.'"   
      
   OK, so if it was published BEFORE LOTR, then it is probable that Lewis never   
   saw "Numenor" written, and so did not know how to spell it.   
      
      
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