"I think Tolkein saw a lot of this coming... He was a very smart man..."
Indeed he was. His colleague and contemporary, CS Lewis, made even more explicit references to a moslem-like civilization in the Calormen race found throughout the "Chronicles of Narnia."
83 posted on 12/29/2006 6:20:58 AM PST by Joe 6-pack
(Voted Free Republic's Most Eligible Bachelor: 2006. Love them Diebold machines.)