275 – Who’s Gonna Ride Your War Horses?
The Prancing Pony Podcast
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The New Menorian Culture
Tolkien's intention was to keep Westron as the lingua franca of Middle-Earth. The new Menorian kingdoms in exile are the closest thing Middle-Earth has to a Roman Empire, and it is their fall that began the current age of decline. Tolkien would say that the currents of time that make these changes happen in language and culture move faster for us now than they did back in the third age.
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