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Guard of the Citadel
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Oxon
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That is a massive ammount of work and dedication! Congrats on a great article, had not read anything on M-e from a purely scientific point of view.
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Galadriel55, the Warwickshire Hoard is an archaeological discovery made in Warwickshire on April 1, 2008 by a metal detecting enthusiast. Usually "hoards" like these are stashes of coins from the Roman period or later, buried in distress (say, from a Viking raid), but this particular discovery immediately appeared to date from much earlier, and was a metal box containing (as we now know) recipes from the years that the area was settled by hobbits. It has, of course, taken some time for the appropriate analyses to be made, and published, but there's just enough literature out there that they needed someone who is really good at translating Scientificese into layspeak so that the greater populus could be made aware of what we now think the hoard means.
The Might, if you're near an academic library, you might want to see if they have Middle-earth Archaeology in their holdings, or, if not, whether they have access to JSTOR. I think it's on a number of more scientific databases as well. Anyhow, that is the go-to place for the latest scientific research on the historical Middle-earth.
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Blossom of Dwimordene
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: The realm of forgotten words
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Very thematic. I just noticed that you started the thread on April 1st as well...
![]() This April Fools thing... Just can't trust anyone... Don't know if to believe this or not. ![]() But either way it sounded very believable to a Tolkien fanatic like me who is trying to prove that ME is our world. I hope it isn't a joke. Seriously. Please tell me it's not, or I'm going to feel like the biggest fool there's ever been on April Fools.
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