Could "The Council of Elrond" Have Been an Email?

*Lord of the Rings* Challenge bonus, week two

Short answer: No, silly! They didn’t have email.

Rivendell, as imagined by Alan Lee, from the Tolkien Century Edition, 1992.

I have sat through so many committee meetings, a few that were productive, some that were necessary, and many more that could have been an email—so many hours of my life I’ll never get back. Because we have only a few hours a week a…