Planning the "Assigned to Mordor" rpg has suddenly raised to consciousness yet another "somethin' that ain't there and oughta be": coins, currency, or any monetary valuations.
It's kind of funny that Lalwendė even brought up poverty (or the lack thereof) and money in one of her posts, but this still didn't occur to me.
In fact, not only is coinage, currency, and monetary valuation missing in the Shire, it's missing absolutely everywhere in Middle Earth!
What's going on here? Care to speculate? Or produce hard evidence to the contrary? Or discuss what was up with Tolkien for not including it?
Or is there not ever supposed to be something as crass as the means of determining economic value in Fairyland?
