Thread:Dark dwarves 2/@comment-26453572-20160717171223/@comment-26453572-20160728180243

ChazmanianDevil wrote: 1. First off, why owls they start off looking European? Secondly, okay, let's say these changes can't happen in that period of time. How are there even ethnicities in the Tolkien world?

2. Is it ever stated when men awakened? (It's been a while since I read the Silmarillion.) Doesn't it just say then they start arriving in Beleriand?

3. I'm saying it's highly possible even Tolkien didn't know, so therefore we can fill in the blanks. 1. Your autocorrect threw "owls" into the sentence, and I'm really not sure what you were trying to say, so I'll answer that first part later. If those changes can't happen over the course of 1,000 years, the only likely option is that they were created that way. If they can, I doubt simply migrating would give the men facial features similar to the Elves.

2. They awakened at the first rising of the sun. When the sun was made after the lamps were destroyed, it was decided that the second-born of Eru would awaken at the sun's rising.

3. Why wouldn't Tolkien know if evolution occurred in his world? I think it's fairly easy to decide "Evolution didn't happen in this world, they were created".