Actually I have started a fire by rubbing sticks together, and it's no fun - you wear your arms out and if you slow down even for a second you have to start all over again. It can take you an hour to get one started, and if I'm hungry (or see Nazgul behind me) I'd rather not wait that long. Haven't tried flint stones, though. Granted, Aragorn can probably get fire started with one piece of damp wood and no help of any kind in ten seconds flat, but I can't count on always having him with me, nice as that would be [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]. No, matches or lighter for me.
BTW one thing I've always wondered about; in The Hobbit and LOTR, they use tinder-boxes to start fires. What is a tinder-box exactly? (I hide my head in shame at my ignorance, but I really don't know). Is it just a box with flint in it or is there something else to it?
[ March 10, 2002: Message edited by: Kalimac ]
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