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WillyTheWyvern wrote: 76.116.94.54 wrote: Didn't he actually base it off his experiences in ww1? Or was that the dead marshes? Was England's industrialization not part of WWI? Also, everything about the areas around Mordor are based off of WWI, including the Dead Marshes...

 No not really. British industrialisation reached its peak in the late 1800's. Cheap labour elsewhere brought much industry away to the east. WW1 brought a small revival but British industry has been in steep decline for a long time now.