Quote:
|
the decline of technology in that no more Silmarils or Palantiri were made, no ships so strong as those made by the Numenoreans, etc, etc, but doesn't that also coincide with a decline in magic?
|
I suspect Galadriel, and the rope-making elf in the Farewell To Lorien chapter, would call that a decline in art.
"Are these magic cloaks?"
"I do not know what you mean by that... Leaf and branch, water and stone: they have the hue and beauty of all these things under the twilight of Lorien that we love; for we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make."
Quote:
|
. This does bring to mind a less pastoral mind-set on the part of the big people, but I fail to see the connection between this and technology.
|
Perhaps the connection is that as men increase their comfort in and dependance on technology, and remove themselves further and further from the soil and the earth, hobbits grow still less and less interested in men-- regarding them with ever-increasing suspicion.