Re: Anachronisms in LOTR

Hasdrubal Hamilcar wrote:
> seeds of their science fell on the stony ground of Roman schoolchildren, 
> and they never bore any fruit again there.  They did eventually bear 
> fruit in the Middle East when the Arabs took their learning to heart, 
> but that was a millenium later.

Moslem scholar brought Greek learning back to Europe in the 12-th and 
13-th centuries. It was the foredawning of the Renaissance.

By the end of the 17-th century Europe had outrun Greek learning and the 
rest is history.

Bob Kolker