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Re:Why hasn't Middle Earth had an Industrial Revolution? by npongratz on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @09:31AM (#31907447)
> I also don't recall running into Nazgul and Orcs while growing up near Oslo, and imagine facing that might have been a rather severe deterrent to growth.

But you did have trolls, right? :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trollhunter

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Re:Why hasn't Middle Earth had an Industrial Revolution? by vidarh on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @10:15AM (#31907958)
Hah! A whole lot of Norwegian folklore involves stories about how a lot of our mountains are trolls who didn't get back in hiding before the sun came out... None of them explain where there'd be enough space for mountain sized trolls to hide during the days, though.
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