...and Gandalf suddenly had a brilliant idea of how to win the war.

[The Saucepan Man]

Originally Posted by the phantom

Why is Middle Earth so simple compared to our world? Because we are seeing it through the eyes of one man.

Er, that one man created Middle-earth as we know it. So it is however he wrote it. You are, of course, fully entitled to ascribe to it the real life attributes that you describe but, to my mind, they are at odds with the materials which we are given.

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