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10-26-2015, 07:07 AM
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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Gondor compared to Venice
According to the Letters, Tolkien and his daughter Priscilla visited Italy from late July to mid-August 1955. In a letter dated 7th September, a reply to questions asked by a reader, Richard Jeffrey, Tolkien apologised for the delay in his reply, saying that the former's enquiry 'came while I was away, in Gondor (sc. Venice), as a change from the North Kingdom'. (Letter 168)
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10-26-2015, 09:39 AM
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Wight of the Old Forest
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Unattended on the railway station, in the litter at the dancehall
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Can't put my fingers on the quote right now, but I distinctly remember him speaking somewhere of Venice as Númenórean Pelargir before the Shadow came. It may be in a letter from the same time as the one you quoted, Faramir.
While we're dwelling on geographical correspondences, it's quite obvious that the coastline of Lindon, Minhiriath and Enedwaith broadly matches that of the British Isles (with the Irish Sea dried up) and France, except the Iberian Peninsula seems to have been mislaid.
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