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Student Publishes Extensive Statistics On the Population of Middle-Earth
First time accepted submitter dsjodin writes "There are only 19% females in Tolkien's works and the life expectancy of a Hobbit is 96.24 years. In January 2012 chemical engineering student Emil Johansson published a website with the hope for it to become a complete Middle-Earth genealogy. Now, ten months later, he has published some interesting numbers derived from the database of 923 characters. The site features a set of unique graphs helping us understand the world Tolkien described. Perhaps the most interesting ones are showing the decrease of the longevity of Men and the change in population of Middle-Earth throughout history. The latter was also recently published in the September edition of Wired Magazine."
I'll come to insult you more - after I go through these numbers and make sure they are correct.
That is better than most circles of geeks around here.
If I were a gambling man, my bet would be on the other way around.
An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
A lot of classical fantasy had a dearth of women as characters.
Whereas the typical male fantasy has lots of women and only one guy.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
It's the beards.