Comments by "" (@charlesmartin1121) on "Disparu" channel.

  1. Hi There. I agree with everything you have to say with the exception of bringing science and especially evolution into your argument in relation to Tolkien's works. Anyone with a basic understanding of science could rip Tolkien and his entire creation to shreds on the basis of how it violates multiple well established laws of the natural world. So it's better to say that having a dark-skinned, beardless Dwarvish female is a violation of the original text. Cheers.
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  2.  @disparutoo  Understood. My tongue is almost permanently lodged in my cheek.
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  3.  @TallisKeeton  Interesting. I had not heard of that book. Still it's unpublished writings by Tolkien. Who knows if Tolkien himself considered any of it canon, as we know his ideas 'evolved' overtime. I may give it a read though.
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  4. I think those people should be called 'The Shill Crew.'
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  5.  @TallisKeeton  Rip, shred and tear. You got that right. If Tolkien thought his creation was roughly in line with biology and physics, then he had a very poor grasp of even mid-20th century science. The ways his world deviates from well established basic principles of the natural world are legion. Like somebody tell me how a flat Arda orbited the sun, before it was remade into a sphere in the Second Age? Interestingly, Tolkien did inadvertently reflect a somewhat recently discovered idea, that there were at one point in our evolution, multiple hominid genera and species living concurrently. Of course, in Tolkien's world this is carried to an almost absurd (but fun) extreme, with all sorts of unique human-like groups. And as you suggest it might also reflect our future, when gene manipulation will give scientists the power of Aule the Valar, to craft unique human hybrids to live on other worlds.
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