Re: Anachronisms in LOTR

"Bill O'Meally" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "RufusTFirefly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > 'Tobacco' is never mentioned in 'LotR'.  You might suppose that
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> Yes it is. Re-read 'Flotsam and Jetsam'. Longbottom leaf is described as
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> Bill

Ah, but thats just the modern equivlent term used in the translation.

I have a modern english translation of Tacitus where he talks about 'N.C.O.
soldiers'; this way, I know what he is refering to but I also know that he
would have used another Latin term to describe them.

As for Mechanical clocks, umbrella's etc, I have always viewed these things
as stuff the hobbits have picked up from the dwarves over the centuries
(they may even have 'reverse-engineered' some of the Dwarves 'magic toys')
and have developed for their own distinctive purposes. Hobbits are clever,
Gandalf always said that eveyone underestimates them, and he's right.

Douglas...

PS tea is old world, I can assure you. Unfortunalty, trade links with China
were cut with the downfall of Constantinople.

Douglas