Caleb Jones

So Numenor, the story of the Silmarillion and all of that is really a lot of Donnelly's story of Atlantis and his take on Atlantis.

Wow.

J.R.R.

Martin, Valeria, some Lantis sort of land.

Graham Hancock for sure.

He is definitely giving, I've read a little bit of Donnelly.

Graham Hancock does a better job than Donnelly, but his ideas are extremely similar to Donnelly's.

Also, Disney, the Walt Disney Company, a multinational mass media, just kind of copying his thing.

And you can even see it down to the style of the animators, which is that it's kind of Victorian steampunk era thing.

That's because Don Lee's coming from that era.

And they're copying that.

And also, Aryan, the idea of Aryan used to be kind of a, it was something that was invented in the,

1800s as they look at Sanskrit and they see the Aryans who invade India.

And that kind of became an association with kind of just white people in general.

And so the Nazis, a huge portion of them, it wasn't official party doctrine, they're looking to that too.

And they kind of treated themselves as the descendants of Atlantis.

And so this is an extremely, extremely popular doctrine.

It's never official history, but everybody knows about it, and it finds its way into literature and all sorts of things.

Before him, I think only maybe Jules Verne mentions Atlantis in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

It was really just an academic sort of classic sort of a thing, but it started to come back into the popular imagination through science fiction and all.