Waste systems in Middle Earth???

[HerenIstarion]

Originally Posted by Lalwendë

they had to use a rag and rinse it out in a bucket. I apologise if anyone is in another time zone and having thier tea.

In another time zone they would have used water from the bucket and saved themselves from rinsing rags in it.

And just in another time zone they would have used sand (found a plenty lying round), and saved the water from rinsing *** with it

There are lots of possibilities there, see. I suppose there must have been as much in ME.

[Morsul the Dark]

well I assume Gondor would use aquaducts and Rohan and the Shire would use similiar systems, I think Bag End, Wuld have a room emptied(probably) by Sam,

as for Dwarves Well they probably(of all races) would have indor plumbing consisting of tunnels leading out of the mountain

[Bêthberry]

The presence of outhouses leads to the question of available reading material. A standard in the nether regions of Canada was the popular Eatons Catalogue, which provided contemplation galore as well as a ready supply of cleansing material. It was said to be a bad winter if the catalogue did not last through the entire season.

Which of course raises other questions about the fate of copies of Herblore of The Shire, to say nothing of the RedBook of Westmarch.