| 1 | * AccidentallyCorrectWriting: Tolkien seems to have acquired the gift of prophecy whilst writing ''The Notion Club Papers'' in 1944, given that he gives 1987 as the date of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Storm_of_1987 the greatest storm ever to hit England]]. |
| 2 | * ScienceMarchesOn: Tolkien firmly believed that space travel was physically impossible; in ''The Notion Club Papers'', which takes place in 1987, it still hasn't been accomplished. About a decade later, Yuri Gagarin would prove him wrong (However, as of 2023 ''interstellar'' travel, at least within a human lifetime, remains not only practically but theoretically impossible within our present understanding of physics). |
| 3 | * WhatCouldHaveBeen: The point of the ''History''. |
| 4 | * WriteWhatYouKnow: ''Literature/TheFallOfGondolin'' from ''The Book of Lost Tales'' part 2 is clearly inspired by Tolkien's then-recent experiences in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, down to Morgoth's mechanical dragons evoking the early tanks used in the war. |
| 5 | * WriteWhoYouKnow: "The Notion Club Papers" is an AffectionateParody of Tolkien's own experiences with the Inklings--in particular, Michael Ramer resembles Creator/CSLewis and Alwin Arundel Lowdham resembles Tolkien himself. Also, [[AuthorAvatar Author Avatars]] Alwin Arundel Lowdham from that story and Alboin Erroll from ''The Lost Road'' are both linguists. In the first draft, Loudham (thus spelt) instead was a parody of the Inklings' BRIAN BLESSED-loquacious Hugo Dyson. |
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