Thread:Aramirtheranger/@comment-27097330-20160729224639/@comment-26347028-20160809191807

ChazmanianDevil wrote: Maltalidenta Kwuitidherali wrote: Even though there is land in the place of Aman at the time of its removal (the Americas), Africa seems to be very much in the same position, Asia the same position, and so little known about some land to the South of Asia that seeing how similar the rest is it is probably just modern Australia, then? Because that seems very much more like the modern world than Pangea. Uncannily so, you could say, could you not?

I'd place the Urals as the Reds, the Misties as the Alps, and the Blues as the Pyrenees. Okay, first off, as I've already said. I don't buy the whole "changing of the world" at the downfall of Numenor. My opinion is that Valinor was always the Americas, and it never moved. During some later great event the Valar left Valinor either found another land or joined Illuvatar. That also means I believe that the world was always round, not that it was made round at the downfall of Numenor. When the elves talked about the edge of the world in the Silmarillion they either meant figuratively, or thought the world worked that way never having sailed around it. But yes, I don't think Middle Earth is Panagaea, but it's an interesting theory.

I'd place the Reds as the Urals and the Himalayas combined through a continuous mountain range. (Just a wierd fan theory.) I would place the misties as a mountain range that included the mountains of Norway, and the Whites as a mountain ranges connecting the Pyrenees and Alps. It's possible the blues became the British Isles, but probably more likely they just eventually sank beneath the sea. There are stories of men somehow coming across the Elves of Eressëa much later on by sailing into the Atlantic in Unfinished Tales. These are set around Viking or Saxon times, so it's kinda possible, but also suggests that there was some sort of disappearance either around that time or permanent. Also, where would the three specifically named cities go? (Cities that we can presume were so much more, as an army considered humungous at that time was annihilated, while a single city contained an army large enough to be so much more than humongous as to beat that same enemy. That's a big city to contain more fighting forces than all of the Noldor and their allies, in a city that hasn't been remotely near a fight for all of its existence - all of the inhabitants' existence, too, and they're immortal. That's one heck of a city.

I would put Mordor as the Balkan Mts., and as for your theory about them being joined - what about the Altai? I would place the Whites as the Apennines, but that's only going off of relative size. The Whites, Blues, and Greys, just seem like filler space to me honestly, to make it seem not exactly the same as Europe.