Thread:Beijing1000/@comment-4750818-20140912151112/@comment-4750818-20140930204805

If the people of Middle-Earth took 6000 years to get to having modern technology from steel and complex war machines and gunpowder, then they would have taken 12 times longer to discover new things than people of this world, assuming that their technology was about the same of that of A.D. 1510 Europe.

In other words, if we stick to this time scale:


 * Railroads came to the peoples around 2100 years ago


 * an electricity grid came to Middle-Earth around 1'440 years ago, and


 * the people of Middle-Earth learned to split the atom by 780 years ago.

I wonder what would have happened if Gondor and Mordor would have both had the atomic bomb? Would the War of the Ring simply have turned into a Cold War?