Quote Originally Posted by Gavinfoxx View Post
Keep in mind, Sauron was a force of industrialization and progress against pastoral stagnancy.
Giggle. Well, yes, in the sense of fumes and pollution and destruction of lands and trees and cruel magics of fear and enslavement. I suspect that Tolkien would have agreed with this quote from The Voyage of the Dawn Treader:
Quote Originally Posted by C. S. Lewis
"But that would be putting the clock back," gasped the Governor. "Have you no idea of progress, of development?"’

"I have seen them both in an egg," said Caspian. "We call it Going bad in Narnia."