#to be clear the dates are right there but Doggerland is NOT an early medieval thing that baby is prehistoric

[astronicht]

You know, it has been haunting me for more than a month… this far into Two Towers the size of the landscape is inescapable… and of course canonically it’s a version of our world, but also canonically the oceans moved and all… and I’ve been informed the Middle Earth mountains were bespoke sculpted.. but did Tolkien even know about Doggerland?? Did he just invent/prophesy Early Medieval Doggerland so he wouldn’t have to deal with boats, and to facilitate his Hobbit Volkswanderung Period (Hobbitswanderung, if you will).

This is a shitpost but truly I have lain awake wondering. When did we even find Doggerland? Tolkien wrote lotr before the theory of plate tectonics, but Doggerland??? I’m googling it. Oh for fuck’s same, lotr was written before plate tectonics were accepted, but after we found Doggerland. Just 20th century things:

(Wiki)

I’ll never fucking know if he did this on purpose or if it’s a wild coincidence. That’s fine I’m fine.