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The Might · 04-02-2011, 05:09 PM

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.

Mnemosyne · 04-02-2011, 07:19 PM

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.

Galadriel55 · 04-02-2011, 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Mnemosyne

...made in Warwickshire on April 1

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.

Bêthberry · 04-02-2011, 08:54 PM

Tom Shippey has an interesting say about Middle-earth archeology here.

04-02-2011, 05:09 PM	#1
The Might Guard of the Citadel Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Oxon Posts: 2,205	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. __________________ “The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.” Delos B. McKown

04-02-2011, 07:19 PM	#2
Mnemosyne Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Between the past and the future Posts: 1,159	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. __________________ Got corsets?

04-02-2011, 08:54 PM	#4
Bêthberry Cryptic Aura Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 6,003	Tom Shippey has an interesting say about Middle-earth archeology here. __________________ I’ll sing his roots off. I’ll sing a wind up and blow leaf and branch away.

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