Re: Anachronisms in LOTR

"Hasdrubal Hamilcar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Rome could not even duplicate the science of the previous Greek empire,
> let alone new stuff.  It was not until Rome was completely dead and
> buried that the world began to recover from it's waste of 'entropy' as
> Jeremy Rifkin would put it.

Well, I'm afraid you are out of touch with modern academic opinion on this
one.
At one time the pendulum was swung so that Rome was everything and Greece
was insignificant. Then it swung to the opposite pole so that everything
Rome did was worthless and they never did anything orginal, which is your
view.

However, that was several years ago. The pendulum has now swung back to sit
in the middle.
(Actually, this is the usual procedure for most academic debate - it starts
off polarised and then eventially sits in the middle).

Yes, most of Rome's knowedge was based on Greek ideas, but the Roman genius
was utilising them in a way that the Greeks never could have. The dome being
but one example of this, as well as the world's first true, great
multi-national state.
Academics now recognise the genius of both Greece AND Rome, its just that
the genius of both are different.

>> Well, why stop back in 2000 BC, why no go to 20,000 BC--what could a
> physics professor have done, if he had a metal worker with him, or a
> coal miner with him?

Pardon?
This means nothing.

Douglas