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Old 12-24-2013, 04:23 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by Nerwen View Post
You give a forced choice there. I think it’s more reasonable to assume they have greater resistance to cold, but not total immunity– i.e. what I said originally.
True, I did. Given the elves' greater resistance, then, Helcaraxë must have been worse than anything we have in either of the poles right now?

I suppose that the crossing is another one of those parts of The Silmarillion that I wish Tolkien would have written more about.
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