The Time of the Two Trees Was Mythic Time

i'm willing to give them a little bit of leeway on how much time it takes a society develop. But you have to make allowances for the fact that tolkin was working with the knowledge space of his time. Back then, they didn't know how many thousands of years evolution had taken place. For diferent things happen. He always did his best to insure that every aspect of his created world, as he presented it, could be viable in our primary world. Towards the end of his life, it was very sad. He began to be really uncertain about the fact that he had created a flat world and that the sun and moon came along so much later. And all

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