Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-25947183-20150315101555

How technologically advanced was Middle-earth? They had the wheel, chariots maybe, cannons or bombs, writing, probably art, traps, mills, ships, catapults, battering rams, ect.

Did they invent the printing press?

Or guns?

Or missile projectiles of some kind(bombs catapulted in the air most likely) or something you could actually aim?

Or steam trains?

Or steam cars?

Or tractors?

Or planes even?

Maybe handgliders?

Gladiator battles?

Abacuses?

Just how advanced was Middle-earth?

And should these things be in the LotR Mod?(e.g. Handgliders, Missiles and Gladiator Battles, printing press and even steam power)

And what era of normal history of the real world that we live in would the LotR universe fit into? Medieval? Tudor? Iron Age? Ancient World? Modern World? Steam power? What Century? 