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Re: J.R.R. Tolkien Day

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On Wed, 9 Jul 2025 14:14:55 -0500, "Michael F. Stemper"
<michael.stemper@gmail.com> 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
>> <https://thesaxoncross.substack.com/p/tolkien-ice-age-europe-and-middle>
>
>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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