Re: Anachronisms in LOTR

"The American" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Luckily Tolkien had the world traveling, literally, Numenoreans.
> There's no reason they couldn't have introduced tobacco,tomatoes,potatoes
> and a host of other foods and inventions.
> Heck, they could have introduced them to the "New World"!

No. They were forbidden to sail to the West.

Tsar Parmathule