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The Weather of Middle Earth...
6 Dec 2013 10:31 pmI thought some of my friends might find this article in The Guardian interesting.
A Bristol University expert on past climate change has traced some of Tolkien's detailed maps, and then effectively "scanned" that into the university's computer to determine the weather patterns of Middle Earth.
He has come up with a number of interesting observations - for example
• Much of Middle Earth would have been covered in dense forest if the landscape had not been altered by dragons, orcs, wizards etc.
And that the climate around Mount Doom is very like that of Los Angeles...
A Bristol University expert on past climate change has traced some of Tolkien's detailed maps, and then effectively "scanned" that into the university's computer to determine the weather patterns of Middle Earth.
He has come up with a number of interesting observations - for example
• Much of Middle Earth would have been covered in dense forest if the landscape had not been altered by dragons, orcs, wizards etc.
And that the climate around Mount Doom is very like that of Los Angeles...
