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   From: dthierbach@usenet.arcornews.de   
      
   Quadibloc  wrote:   
   > On Sep 19, 9:18 am, djhe...@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote:   
   >> Jeff Urs   wrote:   
      
   >> >And there was the word "numinous" to help him along.   
      
   >> So there was, and that was a favorite word of Lewis's.   
      
   > And, in fact, that word was intentionally part of Tolkien's   
   > inspiration too.   
      
   Is there a source for that? Tolkien states twice in /Letters/ that   
   there is no connection between "Numenor" and "numinous".   
      
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