Macfeast
Nargothrond
Jan 5 2013, 12:16am
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Storywise, it may matter.
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200 years means a few generations for mankind, making the destruction a thing of the relative past. 60 years on the other hand means some men who still live might have been there, like Bard's father (or maybe even Bard himself), making it all the more personal for Bard (this is what I suspect is a big part of the reasoning behind it). In such a case, the difference between 200 and 60 isn't just a number, but something that may suggest what kind of story they're telling.
Less relevant perhaps (in that it doesn't directly impact the story), it also means possibly changing the age of some of the dwarves. The claim that Fíli and Kíli haven't seen Erebor, for example, makes little sense if it was lost 60 years ago yet they are in their late 70:ies (Kíli) and early 80:ies (Fíli).
(This post was edited by Macfeast on Jan 5 2013, 12:22am)
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