(urth) traveling north

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Tolkien had similar ideas about deep history as Wolfe and I do.

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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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