Thank you for the note, Jenny! I've forwarded your comment to Angelica--I'm sure she'll appreciate it! :)

After I read the column, that was my first reply, too: Tolkien was writing fanfiction. :D Well, he certainly borrowed a lot to start in all of his stories, but the Numenor story is particularly blatant.

Just goes to prove my point that the modern separation of fiction into "fanfic" and "original fic" is really very arbitrary, but now I'm getting into a rantastic topic and so won't go any further! :D