11-15-2002, 06:27 AM
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Deadnight Chanter
Join Date: Sep 2000
Posts: 4,244
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Quote:
letter 211 To Rhona Beare
The Númenóreans of Gondor were proud, peculiar, and archaic, and I think are best pictured in (say) Egyptian terms. In many ways they resembled 'Egyptians' – the love of, and power to construct, the gigantic and massive. And in their great interest in ancestry and in tombs. (But not of course in 'theology' : in which respect they were Hebraic and even more puritan
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