And another thing about the lord of the rings. It supposedly takes place on planet earth.
You don’t see hobbits around anymore because they’re very good at hiding. You don’t see elves because they’ve gone off… somewhere. And you don’t see dwarves because…
Actually I don’t think Tolkien gave a reason for that. I think they just faded away or something.
Well you see the earth used to be flat but it’s not anymore. Now it’s round. But elves still experience the world as if it was flat.
But really though Tolkien was like way into the Anglo-Saxons and he was kind of trying to write a Germanic English epic that could sort of fill in some like. Lost native British mythology or something.
So the lord of the rings happens in the same time period as something like the odyssey or Beowulf or the tales of Cu Chulaiin. That being
✨⭐️✨a long time ago <3✨⭐️✨
You know, Gandalf defeated the balrog. We can go back. We can dig deeper this time.
If the magic has died and left midgard then there’s nothing holding us back. You don’t have to worry about running into magic curses anymore. You can just drill, baby. Ever further into the bowels of the earth. The elves aren’t here anymore, it’s our apartment now, I say that we find the molten core of the earth.
