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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hriston" data-source="post: 9426404" data-attributes="member: 6787503">I don't think anyone can dispute this and would go as far as to state an equivalency between Númenor and Atlantis in Tolkien's legendarium.I think of Doggerland as the northern part of Eriador surrounding the Icebay of Forochel, which I'd equate with the Norwegian trench. Beleriand I would place in the North Atlantic, in the vicinity of the Rockall Plateau, part of the "lost continent" of Icelandia proposed by an international team of geologists in 2021. I actually ran across a book in the Berkeley stacks as an undergraduate that proposed a similar theory based on the distribution of fauna on both sides of the Atlantic in North America and Europe and had a beautiful map depicting a land mass stretching between the two continents. It looked to have been published in the 1930's or maybe as early as the turn of the century, but I've since been unable to remember the name of the author or title, and the internet seems to have never heard of it.I think these are great reasons to imagine such a possiblity. Thanks for sharing!</blockquote>