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- From: solovay@netcom.com (Andrew Solovay)
- Subject: Re: Hobbits in the Undying Lands
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.001556.13757@netcom.com>
- Organization: Castle Anthrax
- References: <1993Jan26.012324.13204@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com> <1k3r23INN7rk@digex.digex.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 00:15:56 GMT
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- In article <1k3r23INN7rk@digex.digex.com> dzik@access.digex.com (Joseph Dzikiewicz) writes:
- >A little less flippantly, does anyone recall whether Tol Eressea
- >was included in the restriction on the Numenoreans: ie, were they
- >forbidden from landing there as well as landing at Valinor
- >proper?
-
- Yup. According to the Akallabeth, the Numenoreans were forbidded to
- travel west out of the sight of Numenor. From this limit, the
- far-sighted sailors could just barely see Tol Eressea. Therefore the
- limit was presumably halfway between Numenor and Tol Eressea.
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- Andrew Solovay
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