Why hasn't Middle Earth had an Industrial Revolution?

Re:Why hasn't Middle Earth had an Industrial Revolution? by adhesive_wombat on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @07:38AM (#31906435)

If we aren't going to "yes, and..."[1] our way into the actual topic at hand, consider that since they don't have the same standardised inches, even if they did had exactly a Colt .45", they wouldn't call it that, no more then we would call it a Colt .14T (where T is a Gondorian Royal Thumb).