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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 2113210" data-attributes="member: 2205">Well, before I dive even further off-topic, let me also call for making the material available again, even if it's just a zip archive, or text only, or what-have-you.In fact, especially if it's text only.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />As for debating your correspondances, I can't yet, because you haven't provided any evidence that I can debate against.  You simply state things like the knights of Dol Amroth had a French-like chivalric order, but offer nothing to support that, or that Laketown was a late medieval guild-like organization, or whatever (for what it's worth, I barely consider The Hobbit canon, because it was clearly written before Tolkien started taking that story-arc seriously, and he made a number of changes, mostly subtle, yet still powerful to change the tone of them) so I can't really say anything except what I did; that those are debatable assignments; and that I don't agree.The hobbits themselves, though, maybe merit some more discussion, as they constitute a special case, IMO.  Not only are they a deliberate "anachronism" as a literary device, as I stated earlier, they were also an unavoidable one, because hobbits were the stars of The Hobbit, which was not written with any mind towards being taken seriously, having follow-ups build on it, or linkages to the mythology of Middle-earth that he was already creating.  He literally couldn't write Lord of the Rings without hobbits, since that was what people wanted to see in the sequel to The Hobbit.  So, he did what he could to change the tone and eliminate some of the more fanciful, whimsical and inconsistent elements of The Hobbit even going so far as to release a new edited version with the whole Gollum chapter changed, but a number of other Hobbitisms were significantly downplayed.  He also alluded several times to the idea that Bilbo was pretty naïve, and that anything he put in his book shouldn't be taken too seriously as a kind of back-door approach to any problems that The Hobbit might later cause him.</blockquote>

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