LotR - Prologue

[Kuruharan]

I think it is a little interesting that hobbits like "a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside." Ordering and farming the land is in a sense dominating it. I realize that this is nothing like what the orcs did to the land, but it is still messing with the original environment.

Perhaps a certain level of domination over one's surroundings is necessary in order to survive?

I don't know if Tolkien ever thought of it this way before.

Call me clueless... Picts? Celts? De Danaan? where do they fit in? I thought it was more complex.

Speaking strictly of England, the Picts were in Scotland and the Germans drove most everybody else off to the west.