Extollager
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Go to John Rateliff's blog here:
Tolkien wrote:
Is Aman 'removed' or destroyed at Catastrophe [the downfall of Númenor]?
It was physical. Therefore it could not be removed,
without remaining visible as part or Arda or as a
new satellite! It must either remain as a landmass
bereft of its former inhabitants or be destroyed.
I think now . . . best that it should remain a physical
landmass (America!). But as Manwe had already
said to the Numenoreans: 'It is not the land that is
hallowed . . . but . . . the dwellers there' -- the Valar.
It would just become an ordinary land, an addition
to Middle-earth (the European-African-Asiatic
contiguous land-mass) . . .
----------Now, I'm wondering: did Tolkien mean North America, as John Rateliff supposes, or North, Central, and South America?
Weird Tolkien (II). Valinor is North America
So, THE SHIBBOLETH isn't that hard to get, appearing in THE PEOPLES OF MIDDLE-EARTH (HME.XII) as it does, but how about J. R. R. TOLKIEN, L...
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Tolkien wrote:
Is Aman 'removed' or destroyed at Catastrophe [the downfall of Númenor]?
It was physical. Therefore it could not be removed,
without remaining visible as part or Arda or as a
new satellite! It must either remain as a landmass
bereft of its former inhabitants or be destroyed.
I think now . . . best that it should remain a physical
landmass (America!). But as Manwe had already
said to the Numenoreans: 'It is not the land that is
hallowed . . . but . . . the dwellers there' -- the Valar.
It would just become an ordinary land, an addition
to Middle-earth (the European-African-Asiatic
contiguous land-mass) . . .
----------Now, I'm wondering: did Tolkien mean North America, as John Rateliff supposes, or North, Central, and South America?