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Re:The Moral Economy of the Shire by bee_rider on Monday June 03, 2024 @04:12PM (#40566984)
We also see, in the Amazon series, a group of apparently hunter-gatherer hobbits with iron and textiles.

The conclusion I come to is that Hobbits magic up manufactured goods from the idealized English countryside of Tolkien’s imagination. If you have some English ancestors who lost a pot, it time-slipped into Middle Earth. Presumably they are where the socks go. Ever notice an excess of old keys around the house? Hobbits need boxes!

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Re:The Moral Economy of the Shire by prerok on Monday June 03, 2024 @04:21PM (#40567105)
In the Amazon series are proto-Hobbits, before they settled down. So, they had a different society from the ones we read about in the books.

But, yeah, the time travelling pots and socks must be how it worked :) Kind of like Skynet in the future compiling our C++ code :)

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Re:The Moral Economy of the Shire by bigstrat2003 on Monday June 03, 2024 @05:48PM (#40567968)
Tolkien is hardly responsible for the Amazon writers' unwillingness to think about the logic of the setting and abide by it.
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