I think that the only characters in LOTR who have an accurate memory of the first War of the Ring are the ones who lived through it. There are giant in-story infodumps about the history of the rings precisely because no one remembers them other than the elves. Aragorn has a better understanding of it than the other humans, but he's a) the last scion of a family of superhumans who routinely live 200 or more years, and b) he spends a lot of time with the elves.
Anyway, I like the idea of a post-agriculture, pre-history being a part of the history of a world. It's very Not Standard. And if it's in the past, it will influence the present somehow....
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Date: 2010-07-04 06:05 am (UTC)Anyway, I like the idea of a post-agriculture, pre-history being a part of the history of a world. It's very Not Standard. And if it's in the past, it will influence the present somehow....