The lord of the rings After the finish of reading the Garry Potter books, I started The Lord of the Ring, and by now, I reached one-third of it. It is not as easy as Garry Potter, especially with a lot of unknown vocabulary, but grammatically it is perfect. I do not want to discuss the prons and cons of it. I want ask more interesting question: Why is there no technical progress in this universe? (When I ask this question, I should mention another very famous series of book with the same problem – The song of ice and fire) The author try to convince us that after several thousand years of evolutions, not men, not dwarfs, not orc invent steam engine, fire arm or electricity? There is not mention about any optical facilities (e.g. telescops), they haven’t developed book printing, as a result there is not newspapers and post service. I do not understand how the Middle-earth economic works. How hobbits can produce enough food for so fast grooving population (their life is long and easy, so it is obvious, that they must suffer by the overpopulation), especialy without machines and fertilization (because, as we know, there is, of course, no chemical industry). So, I’m puzzled. You can oppose me, and say – if the author haven’t mention it, it doesn’t mean that there is not it. Perhaps you are right. The simplest answer is - there is magic)