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   Bill Baldwin  wrote in   
   news:Xns9932CFE512795bbwebpage@130.133.1.4:   
      
   > 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?   
   >>   
   >   
   > It's a funny story actually....   
   >   
      
   Maybe it's worth sharing?   
      
   RA   
      
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