Student Publishes Extensive Statistics On the Population of Middle-Earth 218
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."
Nerds! (Score:5, Funny)
19% female is pretty good. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:19% female is pretty good. (Score:5, Funny)
That is better than most circles of geeks around here.
Actually, there are plenty of women around. They just don't want to talk to you :)
Re:let me guess (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Serious points raised? (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Everybody knows. (Score:5, Funny)
It's the beards.