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Originally Posted by littlemanpoet
It may work. Can you elaborate without giving away the whole thing?
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I can try...
It's a Silmarillion style passage "Of Morgoth and the Coming of the Bureaucratic Machine." Morgoth has cursed machinery and various other items from our modern world such that when they appear, bureaucracy comes with them (a way to bring down future human civilizations that occurred to him due to his foresight that humans would depend on technology). Those anachronistic, enchantment breaking objects in the Shire activate the curse at a low level, hence legal customs requiring seven signatures in red ink, etc. Of course, with all the
anakronisms in Mordor, the curse is bound to be stronger.
It's just a wild thought that came to me when thinking over the "Breaking the Enchantment" thread. I have no idea if it works or not.