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   From: dthierbach@usenet.arcornews.de   
      
   Dorothy J Heydt  wrote:   
   > Steve Hayes   wrote:   
      
   >> 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.   
      
   > This is more than probable.  The Inklings read chapters out loud to   
   > one another, rather than making lots of extra copies so everybody   
   > could read one (no xeroxes in those days).  Occam's Razor decrees   
   > that Lewis simply assumed how to spell it, and assumed wrong.   
      
   And Tolkien himself confirms that (letter #169):   
      
     Your discovery of 'Numinor' in C.S.L.'s That Hideous Strength is   
     discovery of a plagiarism: well, not that, since he used the word,   
     taken from my legends of the First and Second Ages, in the belief that   
     they would soon appear. They have not, but I suppose now they may. The   
     spelling Numinor is due to his hearing it and not seeing it.   
      
   - Dirk   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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