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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 7391293" data-attributes="member: 82106">It was built by Elendil and other exiles, presumably, near the end of the Second Age. In LotR it is depicted, virtually unchanged, 3 THOUSAND years later, albeit for the last few 100 years a 'new dynasty' (the Stewards) has replaced the line of Elendil. Its the sheer static nature of things in ME, that in 3000 years of the Third Age Gondor hasn't built even one new city, has been ruled by basically one family, hasn't advanced technologically, socially, or in any other way that we can discern. The history depicted in the Appendices outlines a fair number of events which have happened in Gondor and Western ME in 3000 years, but none of them seem to have had much impact on how people live, what they believe, etc.Now project this onto the real world, 3000 years ago in world history the Middle East was dominated by primitive hydraulic empires, Greece was a land of primitive Palace States, the rest of Europe was still in the stone or at best bronze age, iron had only recently been invented by the Hittites, and Egypt was still a world power. Rome didn't exist at all, nor even Athens. China was still a land of barely semi-historical kingdoms, mostly we really have no idea what was there. India was in the midst of some sort of large-scale de-urbanization which nobody can even figure out (we can't even read the script used in this time period, and probably never will). We can barely IMAGINE what the world of 3000 years ago was like. A Gondorian of year 100 of the Third Age would be perfectly at home in year 3000 Gondor! Heck, he could probably find his way around the streets of Minas Tirith (although he would call it Minas Anor).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 7391293, member: 82106"] It was built by Elendil and other exiles, presumably, near the end of the Second Age. In LotR it is depicted, virtually unchanged, 3 THOUSAND years later, albeit for the last few 100 years a 'new dynasty' (the Stewards) has replaced the line of Elendil. Its the sheer static nature of things in ME, that in 3000 years of the Third Age Gondor hasn't built even one new city, has been ruled by basically one family, hasn't advanced technologically, socially, or in any other way that we can discern. The history depicted in the Appendices outlines a fair number of events which have happened in Gondor and Western ME in 3000 years, but none of them seem to have had much impact on how people live, what they believe, etc. Now project this onto the real world, 3000 years ago in world history the Middle East was dominated by primitive hydraulic empires, Greece was a land of primitive Palace States, the rest of Europe was still in the stone or at best bronze age, iron had only recently been invented by the Hittites, and Egypt was still a world power. Rome didn't exist at all, nor even Athens. China was still a land of barely semi-historical kingdoms, mostly we really have no idea what was there. India was in the midst of some sort of large-scale de-urbanization which nobody can even figure out (we can't even read the script used in this time period, and probably never will). We can barely IMAGINE what the world of 3000 years ago was like. A Gondorian of year 100 of the Third Age would be perfectly at home in year 3000 Gondor! Heck, he could probably find his way around the streets of Minas Tirith (although he would call it Minas Anor). [/QUOTE]

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