Explanation, anyone?

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As silly at it seems coming from a skeptic, I too see Tolkien's work as a semi-plausible history of our world. Sure, I know that none of it truly existed, but for my everyday life, pretending that Tolkien recorded the events of a few thousand years ago has no impact on my daily life.

And so what happened to all of those interesting races that once live here? Well, those that haven't fled or weren't lost still live amongst us; some hidden and others hidden in plain sight. Ever play the game looking at people passing by, wondering if they are part-dwarf, part-hobbit, part-elf? Have the hobbits, elves and dwarves intermarried so that we now carry their genes within all of us?

Ever stare into a forest, hoping to catch one of the trees moving in the still air?

And trolls and orcs? Think that they now live on some remote island with computers, sending spam and cheating at online games.