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Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :

Linky (BBC News)

This is getting increasingly odd. So we've got the Hobbits and we've got the Giant Eagles. What's next, Elves? Valinor? Trolls?

Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :

We've got enough tolls right here.

Posted by Alcon (Member # 6645) on :

Thats so cool. And its actually entirely possible (well, not really Valinor). 99.9% of the Earths liveforms are in fact, extinct and only a small portion of them were preserved in the fossil record. So there could be all sorts of awesome species we don't know about... and may never know about. I love palentology [Smile]

[ January 04, 2005, 02:10 PM: Message edited by: Alcon ]

Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :

I second the coolness.

Posted by lem (Member # 6914) on :

Isn't there a group of people who believe the Lord of the Rings is historically accurate? I am sure this will help them get new converts.

Any ideas when the next meeting is?

Posted by digging_holes (Member # 6237) on :

You mean LOTR isn't historically accurate?

*worldcollapse*

Posted by WheatPuppet (Member # 5142) on :

Along with the discovery of "hobbits" in Indonesia. Short cave-dwelling humans that died out some 16,000 years ago. There are still descriptions of them in the local oral traditions.

Posted by Alcon (Member # 6645) on :

Stories of trolls probably originated from encounters with Neanderthal's before they were wiped out. By some accounts they only finally disappeared completely fairly recently.

Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :

You know Alcon, as I was posting this I was thinking about Orcs and Trolls and a possible connection to Neanderthals, but I thought, nah, that's just going a bit too far...

Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :

Can I just say that I love y'all? [Kiss]

Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :

Tolkien DID write the LOTR out of a sense of longing for Britain's lack of a mythology. NZ is/was part of the British Empire...

Maybe it's all just a conspiracy.

Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :

When I was little, I thought Moa birds were indescribably cool.