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A comment on Tolkien's annotated map of Middle-earth discovered in copy of Lord of the Rings. Parent comment

Re:Tolkien's annotated map of Middle-earth discovered in cop... by eru on Friday October 23, 2015 @10:12PM (#10442159)
At least that's what he said. The Hobbit for example would / could have been told without the languages, and was at first independent of the Middle Earth.
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Re:Tolkien's annotated map of Middle-earth discovered in cop... by hcrisp on Friday October 23, 2015 @11:49PM (#10442353)
Relevant quote: "All this only as background to the stories, though languages and names are for me inextricable from the stories. They are and were so to speak an attempt to give a background or a world in which my expressions of linguistic taste could have a function. The stories were comparatively late in coming." From letter 163.
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