v_legolas_gleaf
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Is this an incongruity? For example, I was just re-watching The Fall of Erebor from the first Hobbit movie on Youtube and noticed a Dwarf in Erebor wearing what appeared to be modern kind of glasses (here The Hobbit : The Fall of Erebor )
Actually a quick google search revealed that the first kinds of glasses were invented in the late 1200s (First Eyeglasses) so it may not be too far off from reality. However, if a novel containing Elfs, Dwarfs, Princes and Kings and Orcs and Wizards and other forms of magic were also to contain a character wearing Glasses, would it pull the reader out of their imagination due to the seeming incongruity as we associate spectacles with the modern age?
Actually a quick google search revealed that the first kinds of glasses were invented in the late 1200s (First Eyeglasses) so it may not be too far off from reality. However, if a novel containing Elfs, Dwarfs, Princes and Kings and Orcs and Wizards and other forms of magic were also to contain a character wearing Glasses, would it pull the reader out of their imagination due to the seeming incongruity as we associate spectacles with the modern age?