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Teshi
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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?
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We've got enough tolls right here.
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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 ]
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I second the coolness.
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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?
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You mean LOTR isn't historically accurate?

*worldcollapse*
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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.
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Alcon
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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.
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Teshi
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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...
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Can I just say that I love y'all? [Kiss]
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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.
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When I was little, I thought Moa birds were indescribably cool.
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