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   Tamf Moo to Mike Schilling   
   Re: Tolkien trained as a WW2 codebreaker   
   20 Sep 09 01:42:13   
   
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   From: liddlelellow@yahoo.com   
      
   Mike Schilling wrote:   
   > Steve Hayes wrote:   
      
   >> 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.   
      
   Numinor makes me think of Moominor. Lewis never went so far as to put   
   Moomins in his worlds, though.   
      
   --   
   tamf   
      
   I see two Gandalfs and church bell. And two half lions chasing   
   a bull rat each over the lake. (Rorschach tests seen by "Illogic")   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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