Timeline for Where did the Dwarves get their food from?
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| Sep 12, 2021 at 17:51 | comment | added | M. A. Golding | @JMERICKS The Elves had a classical or medieval level of technology thousands of years before the first rising of the Sun, which in turn was about 7,052 years befor the end of the Third Age in 3021. Imagine how advanced human society will be 7,000 years after AD 1500, or even 7,000 years after 500 BC. Unless Middle-earth is stuck in medieval stasis - tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MedievalStasis - some societies would have developed somewhat higher technology over the millennia, even if that was lost and forgotten by the era of LOTR. | |
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| Sep 1, 2021 at 21:32 | comment | added | JMERICKS | Hold on how would any race in middle earth be capable of using atomic energy? | |
| Dec 19, 2017 at 13:36 | comment | added | xDaizu | "But fungi require some sort of organic matter - e.g. dead trees or roots -(...)" Weeeell... pretty sure that, after eating, dwarves can produce some sort of... ahem... organic matter... even if it's not polite to talk about it. Also, some animals (like Gollumses) can live with little to no light, so between fungi and animals and... the dwarf byproduct, maybe they didn't need a fusion power plant.... which doesn't mean they didn't have one, of course. Wait, was the Balrog the power plant...? | |
| S Jun 27, 2016 at 19:25 | history | suggested | M.A. Golding | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 27, 2016 at 19:12 | comment | added | Molag Bal | M.A. Golding: I suppose you know this, but it would be easier for you to edit your old answers if you created an account, and then merged them. | |
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| Jun 24, 2015 at 5:27 | comment | added | M. A. Golding | Maksim - My answer doesn't seem speculative when compared to the Silmarillion saying that Morgoth's orc armies filled the plain south of Angband, which was hundreds of miles wide, in the Great Battle. If the Simarillion exaggerated their numbers by millions of times it would still be conservative to estimate that the underground (and under ice cap?) realm of Angband supplied millions of orc warriors. They must have been supported by magic or high technology. | |
| Jun 24, 2015 at 5:13 | comment | added | M. A. Golding | Maksim - I don't think that my answer is very speculative. Gimli's song says that the Dwarves of Moria had some type of of artificial light. If it was technology and not magic, the lights may have been electrical and the electricity may have come from some type of atomic energy source. How else could the Dwarves of Moria feed themselves for years, decades, or centuries when surrounded by Sauron's forces. | |
| Jun 23, 2015 at 20:06 | comment | added | Maksim | Thanks for the answer, but it was highly speculative. Although my question originally ended with "what do you think" I was really hoping for people to find something in Tolkien's works about the matter. Tolkien dwarves growing and harvesting fungi in their caves seems like something out of an entirely different book by a different writer. | |
| Jun 23, 2015 at 18:06 | comment | added | jamesqf | But fungi require some sort of organic matter - e.g. dead trees or roots - from which to obtain the energy for growth. Growing plants under artifical light requires much higher intensity light than is needed to see - especially as dwarves should have evolved very good night vision. So maybe Moria ran off a fusion power plant. | |
| Jun 23, 2015 at 5:59 | history | answered | M. A. Golding | CC BY-SA 3.0 |