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<blockquote data-quote="Blackbird71" data-source="post: 6600118" data-attributes="member: 6794081">Also, gold is quite heavy; even a small amount can be very cumbersome.&nbsp; As I don't see any mounts or wagons with them, that small box may have been all that they could reasonably carry out (presumably with plans to go back for more).&nbsp; Even Bilbo only took home a tiny fraction of his share of Smaug's horde for practical reasons, and it took him a lifetime to spend most of it.More specifically than that even, Tolkien's stated purpose in writing &quot;The Lord of the Rings&quot; and creating his Middle Earth mythology was an attempt to recreate the lost legends, myths, and lore of England.&nbsp; With the invasion of the Romans, and mixing with other cultures, those uniquely English stories were lost and replaced with the tales of other peoples.&nbsp; Tolkien presented these tales as his version of what those stories might have been.&nbsp; So there is very much a reason for the culture and ethnicity of his tales to be Anglo-centric.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blackbird71, post: 6600118, member: 6794081"] Also, gold is quite heavy; even a small amount can be very cumbersome. As I don't see any mounts or wagons with them, that small box may have been all that they could reasonably carry out (presumably with plans to go back for more). Even Bilbo only took home a tiny fraction of his share of Smaug's horde for practical reasons, and it took him a lifetime to spend most of it. More specifically than that even, Tolkien's stated purpose in writing "The Lord of the Rings" and creating his Middle Earth mythology was an attempt to recreate the lost legends, myths, and lore of England. With the invasion of the Romans, and mixing with other cultures, those uniquely English stories were lost and replaced with the tales of other peoples. Tolkien presented these tales as his version of what those stories might have been. So there is very much a reason for the culture and ethnicity of his tales to be Anglo-centric. [/QUOTE]

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