I don’t think we appreciate enough how long the years of the trees + the ages of the sun were.
Like, from the moment the elves awakened to the end of the third age, you have over 10000 years, and you’re telling me they stayed in the middle ages technologically wise for about 9000 of those years?
Even the humans, from when they awoke, have been around for about 7000 years (estimated) AND they were caught up to speed by the elves fairly quickly society and technology wise and then they just.. what? Stayed as static as the elves ever since?
Bc humans would absolutely technologically innovate a lot faster than elves bc they’re mortal, and that imminent death would absolutely drive them.
What i’m saying is: either give me technology/fantasy tech in lotr or give me death.
It doesn’t even have to be cold metal boxes that go zapzap, something in-tuned to nature or magic rocks, idk.
You’re telling me they haven’t found a way to somehow insta message each other over the thousands of years in which letter mailing has existed, and thus also proven to be easily stolen and used as blackmail/stolen information.
Our society isn’t even 2000 years away from the middle ages, and you’re telling me those humans in tolkien put themselves on pause for 6 almost 7 thousand of years???
I'm getting so sick of major female characters in historical media being incredibly feisty, outspoken and public defenders of women's rights with little to no realistic repercussions. Yes it feels like pandering, yes it's unrealistic and takes me out of the story, yes the dialogue almost always rings false - but beyond all that I think it does such a disservice to the women who lived during those periods. I'm not embarrassed of the women in history who didn't use every chance they had to Stick It To The Man. I'm not ashamed of women who were resigned to or enjoyed their lot in life. They weren't letting the side down by not having and representing modern gender ideals. It says a lot about how you view average ordinary women if the idea of one of your main characters behaving like one makes them seem lame and uninteresting to you.
Bird identification is so fucked up in a really fun way you can’t understand until you get into it. For example, there is a type of goose called the cackling goose that looks exactly like a Canada goose except smaller and “cuter”. The cackling goose is way, way, more rare in most places than its relatively common cousin, so it’s on tons of birders life lists. Everyone wants to see a cackling (look in any bird ID group to see lots of hopeful people posting petite Canada geese). The two species regularly commingle, so sometimes a flock of those common parking lot birds will have the equivalent of a Pokémon shiny just hanging out in the middle of them.
How ridiculous and fun is that? I can never look at a big group of Canada geese without scrutinizing their ranks for an adorable little extremely rare cutie pie cackling goose. It reminds me a bit of mushroom harvesting minus the risk of death if you get it wrong