Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-27831234-20160911184721/@comment-25841881-20160913023641

EliSuperHero wrote: Recneps wrote: AlteOgre wrote: Tolkien situated his fantasy world in the 'early middle-ages'. Libraries weren't a common public facility in hardly any developed society at the time. Most would have been included in communities of worship or within large homes of noblety or aristocratic families. For this reason I'd think separate 'library' structures (as a place of study and writing!) would possibly only be found in elven lands and places of major importance in old Numenorean areas: Gondor. Nowhere else. In many ME societies such places may be found in combination with places of worship, justice or high wealth. My guess is that the mod team is already aware of this ... or at least should be.

I'm always a bit astounded by the enthusiasm of so many respondents when there is yet another suggestion of a feature that just could be another obvious addition that may fit in. The endorsed section is overflowing with obviousness ... really guys, hold back a little.

On a side thought: it has always baffled me how odd it seems that Tolkien describes a world developed into 'early middle-age' level of technology and society ... after many millenia of development. The time-scale of development must obviously have expanded because of ... continuous warring, relative low availability of what, relatively low population density? Yeah, libraries should only be in a few places.. Gondor should also have rarer, abandoned ones. Gondor used to be greater.. It used to be more of a late medieval, early renaissance type of thing. If you look in places where it talks of the fall of Gondor, it mentions stuff about the nobility doing astrology. I would be more specific, but I don't remember more. The only people who could be counted as late medieval would be isengard. Because of gunpowder. Hell, if saruman had a few more months or weeks, we would be seeing uruk musketeers! Gondor easily was later medieval or early renaissance. It didn't follow the pattern our world did, with gunpowder and the like, but they were not early medieval people. By the time of the books, however, they were early medieval.