re: #183 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

One of the better versions of Hamlet I saw, live, was adapting it to a modern city, even with black actors.

Note that Tolkien’s “period” is completely fantasy. While the underlying religiosity and monarchical societies he presents are drawn from medieval European ideas and history, the Second Age of Middle Earth is itself completely fantasy.

It’s all made up.

All of it.