(urth) traveling north

[Dan'l Danehy-Oakes]

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.


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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes