@diazona@techhub.social @jadebees@sunny.garden #Monsterdon #thewarriorAndTheSorceress I mean, Tolkien's economics never made sense, either. You had Osgiliath at the mouth of the Anduin and **nothing** upstream of it to explain where all of the goods coming down the river would be coming **from**,... and their one overseas trading partner (Numernor) having been wiped off the face of the earth by Angry Gods. ..or the Lake Town where it's just them, Tharundil's cranky elves in the woods, and the dragon Smaug (who is really more of a net value-sink than anything else).