![]() ![]() But its very complicated and scientists are amazed how people from 5000 years ago could come up with something like that. If memory serves it was some kind of device for telling time/date etc. And Stone henge itself is a marvelously complex contruction. Look what the Ancient Egyptians did 5000 years ago, and the Ancient Greeks. Perhaps Humans evolved to the Middle-earth level but then were almost wiped out back to cave-men stage by some cataclysm a few thousand years ago. Indeed following from that quote it is possible that the history of Arda could have fitted into an unknown part of our past perhaps about 10,000 years ago after the Ice Age. (Of course I don't *really* believe Tolkien's world was real, but it is nice to pretend.) The Valar may have changed the shape of the lands many times. However curious, they are alien, and not lovable with the love of blood-kin.'Īs I said in the thread I linked to, I believe that many ages may have passede between the time of Tolkien's tale and ours. I prefer that to the contemporary mode of seeking remote globes in 'space'. I have, I suppose, constructed an imaginary time, but kept my feet on my own mother-earth for place. ![]() I doubt if there would have been much gain and I hope the evidently long but undefined gap* in time between the Fall of Barad-d’r and our Days is sufficient for 'literary credibility', even for readers acquainted with what is known or surmised of 'pre-history'. I could have fitted things in with greater verisimilitude, if the story had not become too far developed, before the question ever occurred to me. All I can say is that, if it were 'history' it would be difficult to fit the lands and events (or 'cultures') into such evidence as we possess, archaeological or geological, concerning the nearer or remoter part of what is now called Europe though the Shire, for instance, is expressly stated to have been in this region (I p. As far as I know it is merely an imaginative invention, to express, in the only way I can, some of my (dim) apprehensions of the world. May I say that all this is 'mythical', and not any kind of new religion or vision. ![]()
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