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Emma Taverner's avatar

Doggerland was discovered in 1931 and caused a lot of excitement so I’m sure Tolkien would have been aware of it when he was writing LOTR.

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Cornelis van der Gugten's avatar

Mordor corresponding exactly to the Caliphate of Ottoman Turkey also makes sense - the great scourge of eastern Europe almost prevailing at the Gates of Vienna were it not for the John III Sobieski of Poland and his winged Hussars cavalry whose charge broke the Ottoman ranks.

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