From: le@top.put.com   
      
   temujin  wrote:   
   > On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 06:08:24 +0000 (UTC), Louis Epstein   
   >  wrote:   
   >> temujin  wrote:   
   >> > On Sun, 19 Aug 2018 02:16:01 +0000 (UTC), Louis Epstein   
   >> >  wrote:   
   >> >> Since TLotR was published nearly 65 years ago,   
   >> >> longevity has changed.   
   >> >   
   >> > Can we say natural longevity was a mark of piety, class   
   >>> and/or birthright in tolkien's view?   
   >   
   >> Also note that Tolkien showed the longevity of the   
   >> Dunedain and the Stewards after them in an uneven   
   >> but inexorable decline from the dawn of Numenore to   
   >> the Fourth Age onward.   
   >> Yet here we are with records being broken.   
   >   
   > Medical science delays aging despite individual disposition. Perhaps,   
   > people are being unnecessarily stretched beyond their natural   
   > capacity. Still, better to wield the Ring than cast it into the fire   
   > along with all technological progress, right?   
      
   I do wonder what useful crafts were cast under the wave with   
   the drowning of Westernesse.   
      
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