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    From David Dalton@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 3 00:36:13 2024
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    January 3 is J.R.R. Tolkien Day (his birthday).

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    And if I feel a rage I won’t deny it; I won't fear love" (Sarah McLachlan)

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  • From Jay E. Morris@21:1/5 to David Dalton on Wed Jan 3 10:03:01 2024
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    On 1/2/2024 10:06 PM, David Dalton wrote:
    January 3 is J.R.R. Tolkien Day (his birthday).


    More than happy to let him share my birthday.

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  • From Don@21:1/5 to David Dalton on Wed Jan 3 17:12:02 2024
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    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>

    Danke,

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    tells tall tales.. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' Make 1984 fiction again.

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  • From Dimensional Traveler@21:1/5 to Jay E. Morris on Wed Jan 3 10:02:42 2024
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    On 1/3/2024 8:03 AM, Jay E. Morris wrote:
    On 1/2/2024 10:06 PM, David Dalton wrote:
    January 3 is J.R.R. Tolkien Day (his birthday).


    More than happy to let him share my birthday.

    One suspects it was his before it was yours. :P

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    dirty old man.

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  • From Ted Nolan @21:1/5 to [email protected] on Wed Jan 3 18:34:54 2024
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    In article <un47g0$39kua$[email protected]>,
    Dimensional Traveler <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 1/3/2024 8:03 AM, Jay E. Morris wrote:
    On 1/2/2024 10:06 PM, David Dalton wrote:
    January 3 is J.R.R. Tolkien Day (his birthday).


    More than happy to let him share my birthday.

    One suspects it was his before it was yours. :P


    http://columbiaclosings.com/pix/23/12/tolkien.jpg
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    What's not in Columbia anymore..

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  • From Louis Epstein@21:1/5 to David Dalton on Wed Jan 3 21:24:29 2024
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    In rec.arts.books.tolkien David Dalton <[email protected]> wrote:
    January 3 is J.R.R. Tolkien Day (his birthday).


    I have always called it Tolkmas,though never gone out
    caroling "O Little Town of Bloemfontein".

    May 133 Tolkien Reckoning be a happy new year for all!

    -=-=-
    The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
    at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.
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  • From Paul S Person@21:1/5 to Don on Thu Jan 4 08:47:20 2024
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    On Wed, 3 Jan 2024 17:12:02 -0000 (UTC), Don <[email protected]> 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>

    Well, /somebody/ had way too much time on his hands.

    Very interesting.
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    "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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  • From Paul S Person@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Jul 10 08:03:02 2025
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    On Wed, 9 Jul 2025 14:14:55 -0500, "Michael F. Stemper" <[email protected]> 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.)
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    "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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