Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-27831234-20160911184721/@comment-26172435-20160912053130

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.

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, relativelylow population density?