Re: Anachronisms in LOTR

"AC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 17:30:40 GMT,
> A Tsar Is Born <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > "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.
>
> That's the True West(tm), not westward.  If memory serves, the Akalabeth
> states the Numenoreans did sail westward after the Downfall, but only
found
> more mortal lands, subject to death.  My story-internal explanation for
> potatoes and tobacco is that the Numenoreans brought them over but the
> species later died out, only to be re-reintroduced millennia later.
>

Yes, I also remember reading that they even sailed around the globe.
That's when they started saying "all roads are bent" or something like that.
The world was round not flat anymore.

T.A.