winter in Mirkwood

Is it never winter in Mirkwood (or other places with elves)? I mean, with snow and ice. The elves could go ice skating. That would look nice.

[eleanor_niphredil]

They must have winter, because Galadriel said that they hade come to Lorien in its winter. I like the idea of elves in snow, but legolas didnt seem to impressed at the snow on Caradaras.

[Inderjit Sanghera]

Mirkwood was no diffrent to any other place in Arda, in the fact that there could be snow-fall there.(The Shire, with the exception of the Northfarthing recived little snow. I expect that the south recived little snow as well.)

Snow is said to cover the top of Taniquetil, the Mountain of Manwe, and snow was especially beloved of Ulmo.

[Finwen]

When Galadriel said they had come to 'Lorien in its winter, I always took it to mean in the winter of its life i.e. it was now fading. As in:

O Lorien! The Winter comes, the bare and leafless Day

...but I can't find the proper quote, so I don't know. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Anyway, to the original question. Legolas says:

but choose... for running light over grass and leaf or over snow - an Elf.

...so they probably do have snow, as that implies he's come across it before and knows that Elves can run lightly over it. And I doubt that snow would keep away from specific areas of Middle Earth just because the Elves lived there.

Ice-skating Elves? It's probable, I guess. Although they'd be so irritatingly graceful... Hee hee! Imagine an ice-skating Elf falling over! [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img] Or Elven snowball fights? [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

[ February 20, 2003: Message edited by: Finwen ]