Off the Map

[Raynor]

But isn't this in line with his famous comment on the relation of precedence that language has for him, in regards to stories?

Originally Posted by Letter #163

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.

In the light of this, the case you mentioned wouldn't be an exception... quite the contrary