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   XPost: alt.fantasy   
   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 9 Jul 2025 14:14:55 -0500, "Michael F. Stemper"   
    wrote:   
      
   >Don wrote:   
   >> David Dalton wrote:   
   >>> January 3 is J.R.R. Tolkien Day (his birthday).   
   >>   
   >> How Tolkien Disguised Ice-Age Europe as Middle-Earth   
   >>    
   >   
   >Interestingly, that article puts the "Bay of Belfast" in the middle of the   
   >Mediterranean Sea. Is it possible that this might be a typo for the "Bay   
   >of Belfalas"? Maybe the text was auto-corrected (for some value of   
   >"corrected").   
      
   Even Homer was known to nod at times.   
      
   Somewhere in HOME there is a note on the back of something unrelated   
   to it listing the time that various father/son pairs from a novel he   
   was working on but never finished had lived in stating that the 4th   
   Age was pre-Ice Age. Whether the author of the article was aware of   
   this is unclear.   
      
   (The pairs all involved names with the same meanings [one for the   
   fathers, one for the sons] and a dream of a Really Big Wave. IIRC, of   
   course.)   
   --    
   "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,   
   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
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