Amusing thought

[Telchar]

there flew down from the high airs Thorondor, King of Eagles, mightiest of all birds that have ever been, whose outstretched wings spanned thirty fathoms

Most of you have read this line. Did you ever find it fasinating? I mean thats ONE BIG BIRDY!!! Well I always did, but not until today did I measure it against other things we know, for example:

Thirdy fanthoms is equivelent to some 57 meters or 62,5 yards.
In comparison we have two well know war airplanes:

The Spitfire: wingspan 11.2 meters
B-52 Bomber: wingspan 56,3 meters

We dont have to start a discussion about this, but it does raise other amusing aspects, such as: airstrips in ME, how much space did Thorondor need to land?

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