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   Bill Baldwin to Bree   
   Re: Inklings and Islam is there a connec   
   17 May 07 01:26:12   
   
   XPost: alt.books.cs-lewis, rec.arts.books.tolkien   
   From: bbwebpage+usenet@gmail.com   
      
   Bree (no@no.com) wrote:   
      
   > 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.)   
   >   
   >   
   > Together?   
   >   
      
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