It has always struck me that the latter two “races” of man correspond with different ages of material culture: bronze then iron. It has also always struck me that the people of the Iron Age saw themselves as the race of iron, and saw the race of bronze as their predecessors, albeit with a short-lived race of heroes in between. Is it more than coincidence that this mirrors the Bronze Age, Bronze Age Collapse and Iron Age? Is it reflective of that history being mythologized and passed on? Is it a meaning that I am imposing from the remote future on a story I have altered to fit my premise?
