The drowning of Beleriand

[lindil]

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Re: The drowning of Beleriand

I read somewhere in HoME a few days ago [sorry I forgot where<img src=frown.gif ALT=""> ] that Pelagir was on the coast at the time of the numenorean founding , but that the destruction of numenor filled in 70 [?] or so miles of the bay of Belfalas
and left it well inland on the anduin instead of at the mouth. If this is a later conception [and I think it may have been in XII [peoples of ME] then a similar destruction {or construction if you will} was taking place toward the end of the second age. Numenor seems to have been ultra- temperate w/out being tropical [somewhat like San Francisco here I woud guess] and being so as part of the reward 'package' ,while JRRT clearly had northwestern europe in mind for eriador, [ and i would hazard to guees that the was shire relatively snow free due to some kind of gulf stream and proximity to the ocean]. as for the Numenorean ship wreath , I thought the shock of it's freezing was from thegrace of the Valar seen as having been withdrawn not due to the weather . Were not the Numenoreans sailors extrodinaire NORTH, east, south all but but West [till the Akallabeth] ?

Lindil

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