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winds-of-zephyr416 · 2 months ago

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With how long elves live, and how mountains tend to erode and get shorter over time, do you think any of the really ancient First-Awakening-age elves ever noticed it? Would they have known enough about erosion to know why Ered Gorgoroth is less spiky than it used to be, or would they blame a Vala? Would they blame Morgoth? Or would they get curious enough to try and figure it out, only to learn that yes, mountains DO just shrink like that, and yes, it IS partially because they're so heavy that the (middle) earth's crust kinda just can't take it anymore and they literally sink back into the ground? (Real thing that happens IRL btw, please look it up geology is so cool)

I love the idea of elven geologists getting into really heated debates about plate tectonics and erosion, (yk Fëanorians would be all over that shit), but the idea of "DAMMIT MORGOTH, QUIT SHRINKING THE DAMN MOUNTAIN" being a valid explanation is also really funny.

#tolkien #geology #mountains #the silmarillion #elves #lotr #silm speculation #rambly #srsly #imagine the debates that happen in mandos between old cuiviénen elves and those that died in the days of the last alliance #what do you mean the mountains got SMALLER??#or elves who sailed west post-war of the ring and the vanyar for that matter #no death required.#also does erosion exist in the undying lands? do the mountains of Aman get smaller over time too? taniquetil?#i imagine those mountains are pretty big #so they would probably sink under their own weight too wouldn't they?#lol melkor would bully manwe so hard if that was the case. i think manwe got aule to make that not happen solely for melkor reasons.

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