Hobbit Like Humans Show Indonesia Was "middle Earth"

[pizzaman777]

Quote:Anna Henderson


In a world first, a book detailing the discovery of a lost species of hobbit-like people who lived on a remote tropical Indonesian island less than 20,000 years ago was launched in Armidale in northern NSW on Saturday.
According to research completed by University of New England Professor, Mike Moorwood, the artefacts his group unearthed during a 2003 archaeological dig on Flores Island suggest a kind of "middle earth" existed there, with metre-high humans hunting miniature elephants, giant rodents and Komodo dragons.

Professor Moorwood wrote "The Discovery of the Hobbit" about the Liang Bua limestone caves on Flores Island in consultation with colleague Penny Van Oosterzee. The Armidale-based project included a team of Australian and Indonesian specialists and was facilitated through the local Flores community.

The book details the existence of an ancient group of people, "a previously unsuspected, tiny species of human living on a remote island in east Indonesia, and overlapping considerably in time with us," and explains the modern day politics that have surrounded the breakthrough.

The near complete preserved skeleton found by the team was affectionately known as "The Hobbit" because it bore striking similarities to JRR Tolkien's famous characters in Lord of the Rings.

The bones are thought to be those of a Homo Floresiensis, a hairless adult female about one metre in height with a head the size of a grapefruit, long neck and arms, a flat nose, large teeth and no chin, a previously unknown human species.

Homo Floresiensis was a major international evolutionary find, sending shockwaves through the scientific community across the world with far reaching potential historical, religious, social and biological implications.

The international media response was frenzied with Professor Moorwood and his colleagues fielding hundreds of calls for interviews daily, gaining coverage across the globe.The authors describe the flurry of media activity in the book; "This was a scientific discovery being talked about in villages, towns and urban centres everywhere. It was a topic of conversation in beauty salons and barbershops, school and university staffrooms and every type of workplace imaginable."

The revelation of a human with small brain and dwarfed feature was made more groundbreaking by the complex tools found in the same area of the excavated site. The existence of these implements suggested the species was able to hunt, use fire and even developed a language many years before the characteristics of modern human civilisation.

Professor Moorwood said the implications were "far-reaching" and "staggering" because if correct they showed brain size may not be the predicator of intelligence.

The find was not without controversy and the legitimacy of the claims was put into question by scientists around the world. The evidence flies in the face of much accepted research into the evolution of the modern human.

Claims that a group of Indonesian academics hijacked and sabotaged the bones to conceal the truth of the discovery are all documented in the book along with the arguments of many of the critics.

The authors welcome the response of the cynics but have used the book to reveal their first-person account of the discovery.

"Skepticism and rigour in assessing new findings and claims are fundamental in science, but so are objectivity, an open mind and the capacity to take on board the unexpected," Professor Moorwood said.

Source: Northern Daily Leader

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[Seithan]

Well we all know LOTR was not a story but real history:)- check it out http://www.jayweidner.com/JayTolkien1.htm
This is one of the most interesting articles i have ever read!

[infiniteye]

heheh those pics r brilliant...

Tolkien was a true prophet, like Terence McKenna.

[subgenius]

:crazy:Wow Hey don't forget to check out this MOVIE file here! AL FRY'S You're Telling Me the Lord of the Rings is REAL???... lots more AL FRY on the tracker and am in the process of helping to obtain more for tkra's AL FRY archive here: Honesty.Org and the AL FRY FILES ARCHIVE yeeehaw I love this stuff. Soon to see if it's legit and if it iswhether it gets buried like all the other discoveries of this nature. (giants dinosaurs etc) It's a far more wonderful world than we know. Not to mention all the f'n creepy as hell Little people stories ( fairy mounds, missing time, abductions,etc they are the scariest ( shivers) look into em

[hardboiled11]

Quote:Well we all know LOTR was not a story but real history:)- check it out http://www.jayweidner.com/JayTolkien1.htm
This is one of the most interesting articles i have ever read!

This is something I been trying to persue on my freetime (when i get around to it) was to study this same thing about JRR, I always had a feeling inside of me about somethings in middle earth that fealt like they pulled some ancient strings inside of my genetics.

Quote::crazy:Wow Hey don't forget to check out this MOVIE file here! AL FRY'S You're Telling Me the Lord of the Rings is REAL???... lots more AL FRY on the tracker and am in the process of helping to obtain more for tkra's AL FRY archive here: Honesty.Org and the AL FRY FILES ARCHIVE yeeehaw I love this stuff. Soon to see if it's legit and if it iswhether it gets buried like all the other discoveries of this nature. (giants dinosaurs etc) It's a far more wonderful world than we know. Not to mention all the f'n creepy as hell Little people stories ( fairy mounds, missing time, abductions,etc they are the scariest ( shivers) look into em

Jeeze, thanks for showing this, we serrously do need to look into this more. I am facinated and have always been about JRR tolkens work on middle earth, posibily being ancient europe, I mean it might actually work in theory, evidence is probably gone though, if it was similar to dark ages of europe but with different dimensional working like what might be considered real magic or some crazy shit, WE ARE in the iron age, so i dont expect any of the prevous ages being proved right in this one. I mean nothing ever stays the same, maybe the ancients had a way of measuring the way dimensions and other things flowed and pulled awway from eachother and got closer, almost like the orbits of planets around the sun.

[bando]

JRR = Gandalf

It all makes sense.

[atomsk]

Tolkien was inspired by the wisdom of Teutonic and Norse epics, sagas, and eddas, in particular the Finnish Kalevala. He felt that Great Britain had forgotten their spiritual past and wanted to recreate a powerful mythos in the same vein as the rest of ancient Europe's. In the process of doing so he tapped into something grand and majestic, rich in truth and deep in meaning.

[subgenius]

tsarion does go into this in a few of his interviews, especially the symbolism but i am finding more and more that ancient north america may have been far stranger than we can conceive. Take the legends of the mound builders for instance the natives called them allegewi i think, giant round eyes cannibalistic who warred with them, pterodactyls survivng into recent times, sea serpents, sasquatches, tiny tree people ( i was told by a native friend just days ago about local sightings of these ) remnants of giants and the remnants of the worldwide gematric based world ley/dragonline systems, using these energies to levitate, fairy mounds etc and so on...amazing stuff. by the way go check out these 2 sasquatch mp3s it will blow your mind the JOE FEX ones. ALTERNATIVES TO SASQUATCH RESEARCH i live in a hotbed area of the pacific northwest and we get reports all the time, plus i know some special info from 2 friends who are of indigenous background, :quiet: