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The negative connotation comes from that type of conversation being undesirable, but the disagreement was about the form. You told me the form I used was incorrect for the meaning I wanted to convey, and I conceded, both to make my intended meaning more clear and because I'm not interested in...

From this wikipedia article: Many varying scientific and alternative hypotheses attempt to explain the exact construction techniques, but, as is the case for other such structures, there is no definite consensus. But if you think that's wrong, I'm sure you can tell me on which hypothesis all the...

I don't think anyone can dispute this and would go as far as to state an equivalency between Númenor and Atlantis in Tolkien's legendarium. I think of Doggerland as the northern part of Eriador surrounding the Icebay of Forochel, which I'd equate with the Norwegian trench. Beleriand I would...

I'm asking @Paul Farquhar to substantiate the claim he seems to be making that the "great many times" "Smelting is mentioned" are somehow a refutation of the dates I set out in my OP for the time-period of the LotR.

How long after you post a reply to me am I allowed to reply to you? It sounds like you don't plan on providing any examples of these descriptions of material culture you say are so prevalent. A secondary world can be a fictional Earth as it is in the case of the setting of the LotR. This is...

Not to open a semantic debate, but I think you're wrong about the meaning of the word semantics which doesn't imply the meaning of something is uncertain, just that the meaning is the focus of the conversation, rather than any issue of substance.

Well, since there's no definite consensus about how the pyramids of the Giza complex were exactly built, I think it's difficult for anyone to say with any authority whether or not their construction was beyond the abilities of the High Medieval Period or Renaissance. You certainly didn't see...

Apologies, I had shifted to using the phrase standard of living with the intention of imparting the same meaning as living conditions had been used to mean in my exchange with @briggart just up-thread, rather than in the socio-economic sense. I.e. relative "level" of material culture with...

Great! Let's get into the details: Where? Can you provide references/page numbers/quotations of what is actually said in the book? What are they smelting? This is important if you're trying to establish a particular level of human technology has been attained. Who is doing the smelting? Are...

Well, it's not like Germanic and Celtic is some mutually exclusive dichotomy, and I disagree with regard to Gandalf's odinic qualities. Specifically his exhortations to fight against overwhelming odds are at least reminiscent of the gods last stand at Ragnarök and the, to my mind, germanic ideal...

Then it should be quite easy for you to provide actual examples of these descriptions of material culture showing the events of the story couldn't have occurred before 4,000 BC.

I'm not sure where this question is coming from. You're asking if I believe he believed what now? Here's a quote from the beginning of the same paragraph I quote in the OP from Letter #211 which may include an answer to your question (bold text added): May I say that all this is...

I guess I'm failing to express that I'm looking for more than mere assertion, like, do you have a particular passage in mind? I'm not doubting that there could be such a passage, but I'm interested in what language is being used and keeping in mind that meteoric iron is a thing.

I think JRR Tolkien probably had the Genesis flood narrative in mind for the end of the Fourth Age. For the end of the Fifth, I personally imagine the Late Bronze Age collapse. So I'm mostly in agreement, except I don't see a need to reconfigure the continents if Christopher Tolkien's map is not...

You're quibbling with me about the meaning of the word neolithic. That's semantics. You are, of course, correct, and I considered not (mis)using it in my OP (which was copy/pasted from the other thread which used the term) and in my thread title but had difficulty finding another convenient...

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See @Reynard, JRR Tolkien would not agree about the Celtic vibe. :)

That's a matter of opinion. My opinion is he was more concerned with story elements like plot and character than describing people's standard of living.

What does this have to do with what I posted, and what's your evidence for what he believed or didn't believe?