traveling north

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 05 Jun 2010, 16:59 · from 2010-June.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 09:59:47 -0700
Subject: (urth) traveling north
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On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> wrote:

> 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.

No; Middle-earth (or, more properly, Arda) goes back to long before
his famous "bargain" with Lewis. He began writing what would become
_The Silmarillion_ during WWI.

The product of the "bargain" was never completed.


-- 
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes

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