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|  08-17-2003, 03:50 AM | #20 | 
| Essence of Darkness Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Evermore 
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			The Shire did not have 19th century technology; they were not industrialised, and did not have guns. They simply had certain offices, buildings and services -- the post, for instance, as you say -- that are akin to a more modern British society. Society though, not technology. Their actual technology was the same as in the rest of ME.
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