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Old 04-06-2003, 10:53 PM   #37
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He does seem very sketchy on the 'economics' of Middle Earth, trade routes, agriculture, population sizes

That is because JRRT wanted to give Michael martinez something to do! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Actually in UT and parts of Peoples of Middle-Earth you see quite a bit of development of the more mundane cultural aspects.
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