
221 – Dancing Bears: An Interview with Carl F. Hostetter
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The Time and Age of the Elves
Tolkin was trying to work out the revised chronology of particularly t the ears of the trees, or the valnorian ears. And what occasioned this was just as talkin had decided, i think, disastrously, by some time around 19 57, it appears that the world had to have always been round. So a valean year at that point became a hundred and forty four sun years, solar years. It also has profound ramifications on the chronology and the population size of elves as they make their journey from quebianon to the undying lands. But there's also quite a lot of fascinating little glimpses and tidbits of information that arise in the
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