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(whether its a coincidence that Tolkien came up with the story of Numenor at the time of the rise of Fascism is another question)
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An old, old thread, I know: but I just recently reread The Lost Road; and the creepy situation in Numenor described there (in 1936) is chillingly like Germany or the Soviet Union at the time- full of fear and forbidden opinions, of secret police and informers and knocks in the middle of the night.