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- From: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk (Nick Leverton)
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- Subject: Re: Lords and Ladies references and query
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:43:17 +0000
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- In article <1992Nov17.094528.13083@turing.ac.uk> robin@duich.turing.ac.uk (Robin Boswell) writes:
- >
- > Half-way down p. 62 of the British edition of "Lords and Ladies",
- >there's a list of five terms for lands beyond the mundane.
- >The first, "East of the Sun and West of the Moon" sounds
- >familiar, but I can't identify the reference. Can anyone
- >help?
-
- It's another Tolkein one, from "The Road Goes Ever On and On". I haven't
- got the book handy, but one couplet goes something like ...
-
- "Behind the hidden roads that run
- East of the Moon, West of the Sun"
-
- Of course this may itself be a secondary reference, as much of Tolkein's
- mythology quite deliberately referred obliquely to legends of Western
- Europe (an Annotated Tolkein File, anyone ?)
-
- Nick.
-