Modern World references in Middle-Earth

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Re: Modern World references in Middle-Earth

Sam offered Sméagol in Ithilien to cook fish and chips for him.
Of course you can make fish and chips from Bywater Pool carp and the Gaffer's taters, but the appeal of modern Englishness is obvious.
Perhaps it is a translation by JRRT for a typical simple Shire meal.

Obviously, the references grow generally less as the story runs on. While the more childlike Hobbit and first book of Fellowship have a couple of deliberate anachronisms, ROTK surely would not have a Nazgûl described as passing like a train.

<h6>'I will keep my heart from you / To keep you safe / I will wipe every tear / Of your frozen heart / I will always be there / Though from a distance / And though my heart shall bleed / My love shall never blacken.'</p>Edited by: <A HREF=http://www.barrowdowns.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_profile&u=00000003>Sharku</A> at: 7/4/01 6:01:44 am