XPost: alt.books.cs-lewis, rec.arts.books.tolkien   
   From: no@no.com   
      
   On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:31:04 +0200, ?jevind L?ng wrote:   
      
   > "Steve Morrison"  skrev i meddelandet   
   > news:131q9j15hht1380@corp.supernews.com...   
   >   
   > [snip]   
   >   
   >> But I can't seriously see any of this as much more than the general   
   >> picture of northwest Europe being invaded from the south and east,   
   >> which Tolkien and Lewis inherited from traditional sources.   
      
   It wasn't too far off current events of the mid-century either. Didn't the   
   trains in Mordor run on time?   
      
      
   > Furthermore, Tolkien himself observed that the Enemy had to dwell in the   
   > East because the Blessed realm was in the west, just as in ancient Celtic   
   > mythology. And during the First Age the Enemy dwelt in the north, which   
   > became very cold and almost uninhabitable in the destuction following the   
   > Battle of the Valar.   
      
   Always winter and never whatits?   
      
      
   > So east and south were the only remaining points of the   
   > compass.   
      
   Yes. There was a bit of a point made in the book, Sam or someone saying   
   they had always thought things got warmer and merrier the further south,   
   and someone else explaining that Mordor was an exception.   
      
      
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