Quote Originally Posted by Jay R View Post
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:
Tolkein was very anti industrialization. That's why I suggested that book -- it's a different perspective on the events of LotR, and it is reasonable to see the canon events of the story as having a bit of unreliable narrator syndrome. It's an interesting take, look it up! ;)