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I don't know what you mean by "in any meaningful sense." I'm talking about the author's stated intent. From The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (1981), Letter #211 (p. 283 in my copy): ... I hope the, evidently long but undefined, gap* in time between the Fall of Barad-dûr and our Days is...

Well, clearly, I didn't understand what the OP wanted. By the bolded, I thought the OP meant the literal span of time in which the Neolithic period occurred, roughly 10,000 BC until about 4,500 BC or later. If someone asks me about fantasy set in that range of time, the first thing that comes...

Bible nods as Quinn speaks, her chin propped between thumb and forefinger. "The kitchen it is then," she says. "Better to go the way we know than waske our efforks in poinkless fightin'." "Also agree about scoutin' the chimney," she adds

I'm not sure what part of the legendarium you're referring to here as "Tolkien" considering the relatively detailed portion alone covers a period of about 6,500 years from the first sunrise to the final downfall of Sauron, a longer period of time than the historical Iron Age itself, but more to...

No, but it's an interesting question. Are you implying modern society knows for a fact all armor and weapons used in the Neolithic were made of stone, and do you think fantasy fiction about the period needs to conform to that notion?

I'm sorry you feel that way.

If you equate the Downfall of Númenor with the drowning of Atlantis c. 9,600 BC according to Plato, that puts it near the beginning of the Neolithic with the subsequent events of the LotR happening more towards the middle about 3,000 years later. Tolkien is on record as saying his stories are...

The Third and Fourth Ages (and the end of the Second Age) of JRR Tolkien’s legendarium correspond to a fantastical Neolithic. There's even a fantasy Atlantis to explain where all the megalithic building is coming from. It probably helps to have a lower magic level than default 5E, so you might...

Why? I don't recall 5E having any prerequisites higher than 15. Maybe, and yet prerequisites in 5E are odd numbers. When I designed this, I tried to create something that meshed with the existing design of 5E.

How do you figure? Also, I'm not sure what your parenthetical means.

This is pretty close to what I suggested up-thread, in 2017!

Dwarf (Hill-, Mountain-) Elf (Dark-, High-, Wood-, var. Grey-elf/Fairy) Gnome Goblin (incl. Hobgoblin, var. Kobold) Half-Elf Half-Orc Hobbit (Fallohide, Harfoot, Stoor) Human Orc (incl. Orog) Sprite (var. Pixie)

Maybe that's because, as I was told in this thread, languages are bad things to have because they let casters target you with command and suggestion. 🙂

Yes, I’m thinking 24” to 30” tall on average. In 5E they’d be tiny just like the monsters.

I don't know if they've ever been in an official book as a player option, but I think pixies and sprites are missing from the editions with which I'm familiar.

It means "having the wisdom of an elf". I.e. being wise as an elf is wise. Eta: It presupposes such a thing as elven-wisdom such that one can be said to be elven-wise.

I don't recall ever having visited The Thain's Book, so thanks for providing your source, but I'm curious, what do you mean by "no longer canon"?

"We've been through the gianks' kitchen already," Bible says nodding at the doors to the west, "and we know the way to the chief's hall from there and that it's somewhere to the south of us." Bible scans the top of the chimney to see any signs of a fire down below. "That could lead us...

@VLAD the Destroyer, I believe there's still a young giant on fire heading for the door to the kitchen.

I don't think 2014 PC races are given language proficiencies to make them vulnerable to spells like command and suggestion. I believe language proficiencies are generally intended as an asset out of which the player should be free to opt rather than a liability to be enforced. I also think it's...