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feel that we need to take things in perspective, so to speak. How long did it take man to figure out the wheel?
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Cúdae, that is exactly what I meant [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]
Elves used the wheel, were skilled smiths and knew iron, had discovered writing, .. and all this technological advances have taken place in
less than 5,000 years ! [img]smilies/redface.gif[/img]
Elves and men in Middle-Earth are neither in the stone age, nor in the Iron age. Their civilisation is similar to historic ones, in which handwriting was already discovered. And, if the awakening of men is to be placed about 150,000 ago, when the Homo Sapiens appears, that means that it has taken us
about 140,000 years to reach the technological level of the Middle-Earth societies ! [img]smilies/redface.gif[/img]
Compare 140,000 to 5,000 ! Isn't it amazing that Middle-Earth is so advanced? [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img]