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hollowwhisperings · 1 year ago

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guess who just learned all their Tolkien math for the past year has been very incorrect?

i misremembered the calculation of valian years to coranari as being x3.582. it's actually x9.582.

(and i KNOW that this isn' the first time i've had this math fail in this fandom: deja vu like whoah about calculating Nelyo's time at Angband/Thongorodrim wrong: i was using "~27 years of the sun" instead of our fandom's standard roundup to "30+")

i have so much math to redo. DAMNIT, TOLKIEN. ;__;

#tolkien meta #fandom math #valian years #30 years at angband #maedhros meta #nelyo was captured in YT 1497 & freed in either YT 1500 or FA 1 #the difference made by getting the valian year calc wrong for YT 1500 was minimal #but 4 valian years? that can extend nelyo's torment to as long as 38 coranari #AKA maedhros serving a whole extra decade in solitary #& angband's “solitary” was nelyo hanging from thangorodrim for 2~3 decades.#thorondor is best birb #fingon the valiant #now i just have to redo all my arafinwe math #bc he's my best means of figuring out whether math for elven maturity should be using valarin years or coranari #damnit tolkien i'm a linguist not a mathematician!#not me reminscing on how much “easier” the math for ASOIAF is #when it really shouldn't be considering the unreliability of the setting's seasons #but we already knew thst grrm had no sense of mathematical scale

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