Thread:Argali1/@comment-27097330-20160905170345/@comment-26453572-20160905174239

Maltalidenta Kwuitidherali wrote: The Lord of Minas Morgul wrote: I don't think it's a good idea to put only you two in charge of this, seeing as you both think evolution happened in Middle-earth. This genetic and ethnicity debate should be something the entire wiki decides (I would suggest making it a wiki wide effort right now, but the Umbar power debate is currently going on, so having several lore debates might not be a good idea). I think really we should leave it ambiguous, as Tolkien did, really, since then we're not forcing either side of the view. If an RP wants to stipulate whether or not it happened that way, it's up to the GM. But the Wiki shouldn't enforce something it can't even really enforce. That is a good point. Personally, I don't think evolution would happen in Middle-earth, since Tolkien was a very traditional Catholic who made his world in the early 20th century (evolution wasn't even considered in the Catholic Church until the 50's, and even to this day most of us Catholics don't take evolution 100% as described by Darwin, so it's highly doubtful he would adopt an idea so new to Catholics during his time), and he did model a good portion of the spiritual side of Arda based on his own faith, with some other mythology thrown in. Even when you don't consider his faith in this, he still made creation stories for his sentient races, but I wouldn't doubt microevolution exists in his world (since elephants seem to have developed from Mûmakil in his world). That's what I've come to see.

Of course, if the RP is meant to break lore, they can really do whatever they want to the world.