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   Bree to Kristian Damm Jensen   
   Re: Inklings and Islam is there a connec   
   16 May 07 18:04:36   
   
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   From: no@no.com   
      
   On Wed, 16 May 2007 22:18:42 +0200, Kristian Damm Jensen wrote:   
   > SS13 wrote:   
   /snip/   
      
   >> Sauron and Saruman represent Nazi Germany.   
   >   
   > Oh yes, quite prescient wasn't he, Tolkien? He first wrote about Sauron in   
   > the late 1920'ties.   
   >   
   > (Unless of course we include his earlier names for the entity later to know   
   > as Sauron, in which case he began writing about him during WWI, when he and   
   > Hitler was still hospitalized.)   
      
      
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