Do you ever lie awake wondering how the heck Gimli knows what a nervous system is
Clearly dwarves have medical knowledge far more advanced than that of the other races.
His Majesty Dr. Gimli, son of Gloin, Neurosurgeon, M.D.
gimli trying to explain his studies to legolas, a flat-earther
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Yeah but what about Pippin’s inner monologue when he got captured by teh Uruk-Hai? “ ‘What good have I been? Just a nuisance: a passenger, a piece of luggage. And now I have been stolen and I am just a piece of luggage for the Orcs. I hope Strider or someone will come and claim us! “
How does a Hobbit know about luggage claim?
The official German translation even says “I hope Strider or someone will come pick us up from Lost and Found”
ive had long, very long, internal debates about how hobbits are only slightly behind dwarves as the most technologically advanced race of middle earth
like dwarves have superior metallurgy and hobbits have superior textile/agricultural knowledge and beyond that they overlap severely with how literate and studied they are compared to almost everybody on middle earth including the elves
in the hobbit we realize ‘thorin and company’ the ‘and company’ means more like ‘the hudson bay company’ rather then ‘my homeboys here’- they had extensive contract negotiation including death expenses, travel expenses, and so fourth so it stands to reason if they have lawyers a doctor would be reasonable, the low birthrate of dwarves necessitates lowering mortality rates from their combat losses and workplace injuries, dwarves might not have as many prosthetic limbs as orcs but the ones they do have probably work one hell of a lot better
although most of middle earth seems to be high medieval while hobbits are late renaissance… although hobbit leonardo davinchi was likely designing wind powered butter churns rather then siege engines and hobbit michelangelo would be more concerned with brewing then painting- bilbo has brass buttons, teatime, pocket handkerchiefs, sophisticated cheese technology, detailed genealogy AND cartography on top of the reaction of hobbits to gandalfs fireworks implies they have their own fireworks but gandalfs are just better- its entirely possible hobbits are the only middle earth race packing heat“Poor Bilbo couldn’t bear it any longer. At may never return he began to feel a shriek coming up inside, and very soon it burst out like the whistle of an engine coming out of a tunnel.”
Hobbits had TRAINS. And railroad tunnels.
The Hobbits were practically on the edge of their own industrial revolution (which happened when Saruman arrived and we all know what JRRT thought of mechanization) and less late renaissance than late Georgian/Regency England. Leaving the Shire is like walking out of a Jane Austen novel and realizing everywhere else is trapped in Beowulf.
