Poll of the Day > Tell me where is Gandalf for I much desire to speak with him.

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Cotton_Eye_Joe
02/06/18 2:07:26 AM
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What did you say?
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Mead
02/06/18 2:14:39 AM
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Does he wear anything under his robes
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Tezlok
02/06/18 2:14:52 AM
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my favorite bit of trivia about Lord of the Rings is that it's supposed to our world, just in the way way distant prehistoric past. alot of people don't know that. but the idea was supposed to be that that world existed on this planet in prehistory and then all records of it were lost and forgotten and the world changed and we became ignorant of it. the ending is kinda sad cause basically all the magical creatures fade away. and the world becomes the mundane planet we now live on.
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Lil69Leo
02/06/18 2:23:56 AM
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Tezlok posted...
my favorite bit of trivia about Lord of the Rings is that it's supposed to our world, just in the way way distant prehistoric past. alot of people don't know that. but the idea was supposed to be that that world existed on this planet in prehistory and then all records of it were lost and forgotten and the world changed and we became ignorant of it. the ending is kinda sad cause basically all the magical creatures fade away. and the world becomes the mundane planet we now live on.


Based on what?
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Tezlok
02/06/18 2:28:11 AM
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Lil69Leo posted...
Tezlok posted...
my favorite bit of trivia about Lord of the Rings is that it's supposed to our world, just in the way way distant prehistoric past. alot of people don't know that. but the idea was supposed to be that that world existed on this planet in prehistory and then all records of it were lost and forgotten and the world changed and we became ignorant of it. the ending is kinda sad cause basically all the magical creatures fade away. and the world becomes the mundane planet we now live on.


Based on what?

I've seen it said by people who have studied the series and apparently in an interview, Tolkien himself once said that it's "earth but in a different stage of imagination"

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22034/is-tolkiens-middle-earth-in-our-universe


Middle-earth is supposed to be the same world as our Earth, at a "different stage of imagination". Something like a fictional history of the real world Earth. Here is the relevant bit from a BBC interview with Tolkien (1971) (heard at about the 5:40 mark of this video):


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvSogRcyDzs
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Krazy_Kirby
02/06/18 2:36:56 AM
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he isn't here. gandalf isn't human
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