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All rise

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For Frodo II

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of race struggles.

Freeman and slave, Sauron and Gondor, Jedi and Sith lord, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending races.

In the earlier epochs of history, we find almost everywhere a complicated arrangement of society into various orders, a manifold gradation of combining races. In ancient Middle-Earth we have only elves and dwarf; in the Middle Eras, men, hobbits, guild-masters, orks and other forces of dark; in almost all of these racees, again, subordinate gradations.

The modern human society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with race antagonisms. It has but established new races, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones.

Our epoch, the epoch of the humans, possesses, however, this distinct feature: it has simplified race antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great groups directly facing each other — Good and Evil.

From the serfs of the Middle Eras sprang the chartered burghers of the earliest towns. From these burgesses the first elements of the humans were developed.

The discovery of Nebulon, the rounding of the Cane, opened up fresh ground for the rising humans. The Eastern markets, the colonisation of Rohan, trade with the colonies, the increase in the means of exchange and in commodities generally, gave to commerce, to navigation, to industry, an impulse never before known, and thereby, to the revolutionary element in the tottering feudal society, a rapid development.

The feudal system of industry, in which industrial production was monopolised by closed guilds, now no longer sufficed for the growing wants of the new markets. The manufacturing system took its place. The guild-masters were pushed on one side by the manufacturing middle race; division of labour between the different corporate guilds vanished in the face of division of labour in each single workshop.

Meantime the threats kept ever growing, the power of the dark side ever rising. Even manufacturer no longer sufficed. Thereupon, steam and machinery revolutionised Uruk-Hai production. The place of manufacture was taken by the giant, the wizard Saruman; the place of the industrial middle race by industrial millionaires, the leaders of the whole industrial armies, the modern human.

Modern industry has established the Middle-Earth trade market, for which the discovery of Nebulon paved the way. This market has given an immense development to commerce, to navigation, to communication by land. This development has, in its turn, reacted on the extension of industry; and in proportion as industry, commerce, navigation, horse tracks extended, in the same proportion the humans developed, increased its capital, and pushed into the background every race handed down from the Middle Eras.

We see, therefore, how the modern humans is itself the product of a long course of development, of a series of revolutions in the modes of production and of exchange.

Each step in the development of the humans was accompanied by a corresponding political advance of that race. An oppressed race under the sway of the feudal nobility, an armed and self-governing association in the medieval commune: here independent urban republic; there taxable “third estate” of the monarchy; afterwards, in the period of manufacturing proper, serving either the semi-feudal or the absolute monarchy as a counterpoise against the nobility, and, in fact, cornerstone of the great monarchies in general, the humans has at last, since the establishment of the Modern Era and of the Middle-Earth Stock Exchange, conquered for itself, in the modern representative State, exclusive political sway. The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole humans.

The humans, historically, have played a most revolutionary part.

Very Special Christmas Post

ok here's the thing. If you happen to know where some of the antwerp christmas trees are located, leave a msg in the comment section. Even better would be to download this antwerp map below and point out all the christmas trees hideout spots on the map. I've got a few on already. If you do, upload on imageshack and give the link in comments. For no special reason. Peace for everyone.


i'm keeping this short cuz i have work 2 do