Timeline for Why is the number of orcs thousands instead of millions in "The Lord of the Rings"?
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| Oct 15, 2021 at 21:48 | comment | added | njzk2 | what part of LoTR reminds you more of the 20th century than of the medieval era? | |
| Oct 15, 2021 at 17:38 | history | edited | Machavity |
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| Oct 15, 2021 at 17:01 | comment | added | Tom | I'm not an expert, but my impression from reading the books twice was that Middle Earth is definitely a lot smaller than Europe. | |
| Oct 15, 2021 at 9:46 | comment | added | vsz | The World Wars enabled so many millions to fight because soldiers and their supplies were transported from far distances by rail and ships. Armies in medieval times (and in the Lord of the Ring) were limited by how fast they can walk and the supply they can transport by carts. | |
| Oct 14, 2021 at 21:14 | answer | added | John Doty | timeline score: 5 | |
| Oct 14, 2021 at 20:18 | comment | added | chepner | @user28434 What we see in the books is the northwest part of Middle-earth. Middle-earth is the land(s) separate from Aman and Númenor. Whether it is the only continent, or one of several, is unknown. (Though assuming that Arda is Earth in an imaginary past, Middle-Earth probably corresponds roughly to Eurasia.) | |
| Oct 14, 2021 at 17:07 | comment | added | jmm | @user28434 too bad Beleriand wasn't there anymore by the Third Age, otherwise, it might have been bigger than Europe 😄 | |
| Oct 14, 2021 at 11:49 | comment | added | user28434 | @DanielWagner Middle Earth is not the planet, but a small area of a planet, and it's smaller than Europe 7a6972656f5f74637568.killerhor.net/maps/me_scale_eu.gif | |
| Oct 14, 2021 at 9:59 | answer | added | Shamshiel | timeline score: 11 | |
| Oct 14, 2021 at 1:36 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Oct 13, 2021 at 18:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSciFi/status/1448347860853002241 | ||
| Oct 13, 2021 at 17:22 | comment | added | Darrel Hoffman | Tolkien more than once insisted that his works were not allegorical, no matter how much readers have drawn parallels to real history. | |
| Oct 13, 2021 at 14:00 | comment | added | Daniel Wagner | Related question: do we know the size of the area the orcs came from/reproduced in? Perhaps Middle Earth is just smaller than Modern Earth. | |
| Oct 13, 2021 at 12:44 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Oct 13, 2021 at 9:23 | vote | accept | Maykel Jakson | ||
| Oct 13, 2021 at 8:00 | answer | added | M. A. Golding | timeline score: 4 | |
| Oct 13, 2021 at 4:51 | answer | added | WOPR | timeline score: 13 | |
| Oct 13, 2021 at 2:38 | answer | added | David Roberts | timeline score: 44 | |
| Oct 13, 2021 at 2:11 | comment | added | Misha R | Development of synthetic ammonia in industrial farming. Communication and transportation used to move populations and troops. Gatling guns. Hand grenades. Tanks. Airplanes. Chlorine gas. Nuclear bombs. | |
| Oct 13, 2021 at 2:11 | comment | added | suchiuomizu | Why would you compare the numbers of soldiers in a fantasy army to those of the World Wars? | |
| Oct 13, 2021 at 0:52 | answer | added | TenthJustice | timeline score: 21 | |
| Oct 13, 2021 at 0:32 | answer | added | Mary | timeline score: 63 | |
| Oct 13, 2021 at 0:30 | answer | added | KerrAvon2055 | timeline score: 155 | |
| Oct 13, 2021 at 0:09 | comment | added | Valorum | Because an Orcish army of millions would have rolled over Middle-earth in a matter of hours. | |
| Oct 13, 2021 at 0:02 | history | edited | LogicDictates | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 12, 2021 at 23:48 | history | edited | Invisible Trihedron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S Oct 12, 2021 at 23:45 | review | First questions | |||
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| S Oct 12, 2021 at 23:45 | history | asked | Maykel Jakson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
