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• Greg. Tingey commented on A Far Green Country
  komnipom @ 49 Unless "magic" is a non-renewable resource as in the Niven sub-set? Or can "use itself up" in other ways, as appeared to happen in the "Theives World" set-up? Or has restrictions and difficulties, as postulated by Eddings in his "Belgarath" set?...
• Greg. Tingey commented on A Far Green Country
  Dirk @ 69 Technology in LotR Please don't! Many years ago, I gave an hour's presentation to the Tolkien Soc at Oxonmoot on this very subject. Suggesting either that it was an "alternate past" or a future. The technology of the Numenoreans, in particular was as good as, or better than that of the 1950's. They had extra-strong STEEL bows, for instance (And I have one - they were made for target archery in the period 1960-70) they had "missiles"(?) that passed across the country "for many miles, with a great roaring sound and never missing their mark" Neither Morgoth...
• Greg. Tingey commented on A Far Green Country
  I MIGHT have an old audio-cassette tape somehwere, and a few notes (I think) in the back of a cupbard also somewhere .... erm....
• Moderator Alan commented on A Far Green Country
  You're referring to Maid Services rather than Allynh, I trust....
• Moderator Alan commented on A Far Green Country
  Before, all cinema starships were like the C57-D, the Jupiter 2, or the Enterprise - shining white and chrome, spotless altars of technology I'll concede most. But not all: John Carpenter and Dan O'Bannon's Dark Star is still one of my favourite SF movies of all time, and that ship almost makes the Falcon look good....