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⌈ Secret Post #3360 ⌋

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[Niche]

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[Rush Hour 1, 2, 3]

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["The Bride Was A Boy" manga]

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[J.K. Rowling]

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[Pretty Little Liars]

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[Twin Peaks]

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[The Walking Dead/The Flash]

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(GIRLS)

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[The Grinder]

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[Pokemon]

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[Lord of the Rings]

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[Babylon 5, Tolkien, Star Wars, Harry Potter]

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[Star Wars: The Force Awakens]

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[Pete Seeger]

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Never look at Tolkein too hard. Where does their tea come from? Or sugar? He wanted an idyllic pre-industrial world but with post-industrial comforts!

I think the orcs must have been toiling in the underground sugar caves... no wonder they had to rebel.

Well, Pratchett had treacle-mines. Why not?

Presumably there were trade lines through Harad, or by sea. Middle-Earth was a big continent, and there were both Elves and Edain sailing the seas around it. Tea and sugar could be had from places where they grew. What the hobbits traded for them I don't know. But they were pretty technological! Maybe clockwork or something.

Now, historians have noted the curious fact that in some of Tolkien's translations the Hobbits had 'tomatoes' and what appears to be a close cousin of tobacco.

But even if Middle-Earth is really an earlier arrangement of Eurasia as assumed, it's possible that these went extinct in the northwest of Middle-Earth long before the geography changed to what we now call Europe. Or perhaps it's a translation error; Tolkien would hardly be the first translator to translate something imperfectly.

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Re: Never read Tolkien, OP

Re: Never read Tolkien, OP

Re: Never read Tolkien, OP

Tea and sugar aren't that strange.