traveling north

Jeff Wilson · 04 Jun 2010, 23:32 · from 2010-June.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 18:32:51 -0500
Subject: (urth) traveling north
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On 6/4/2010 6:21 PM, John Watkins wrote:
> A pedantic point:
>
> Tolkien most assuredly meant for Middle-Earth to be set in the distant
> past of our own world.

It's my understanding that was how it started with he drawing distant 
time and CS Lewis drawing distant space, but as it took on a life of its 
own it became increasingly allegorical and less literally our world. 
Though with events like the Bending of the Roads, pretty much any 
discrepancies can be explained away.

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