Re: Who were the Aryans?

Adam Canning wrote:

> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 

> > > Scandinavians in mind when he imagined them.
> > >
> > > Their _names_, incidentally, when rendered in their own tongues sound
> > > more Semetic than Indo-European, and I'm sure the effect was
> > > intentional. I bet Tolkien enjoyed the weirder speculations about
> > > Atlantis and the Lost Tribes of Israel.
> >
> > The weirdest speculation would be that the lost Entwives are the lost 
> > tribes of Israel.  Both were lost "in the east."  ;)
>
>
> Thus explaining the wooden nature of certain British politicians. :)

I was thinking more along the lines of East of Iraq.  ;)

The book probably referred to East of Rohan, Gondor or Mordor (one of 
those).

Hasan