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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/onering.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: The drowning of Beleriand
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Quote:<hr> since Numenor was apparently far south of Mithlond<hr></blockquote>
Says who?
According to text it was in the north, closer to the old lands of Beleriand.
The description of Numenorean vegetation also holds to a northern latitude.
There is even a description of Anardil beholding the Bay of Balar for the first time by sailing south.
You don't find it strange that Mithlond was the FIRST stop from a proposed southern location?
As for when Beleriand was 'mostly' ruined... try reading note 3 to
Aldarion and Erendis. The description of the destruction was made as early as circa S.A. 600.
I say 'mostly' with some reservation, as there had to be time for evacuations and whatnot.
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