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Tumblr User Hilariously Proves Elves In Lord Of The Rings Were Walking Nightmares

But what if Middle Earth's flat. Elves don't give a damn about the (potential) curvature of your Middle Earth. 

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    Text - sidereanuncia Theory: Nobody who writes a physics textbook gives any fucks Evidence: In J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (volume p. 32), Legolas the Elf claims to be able to accurately count horsemen and discern their hair color (yel low) 5 leagues away on a bright, sunny day. Make appropriate estimates and argue that Legolas must have very strange-looking eyes, have some means of nonvisual perception, or have made a lucky guess. (1 league 3.0 mi.) Q2S.12 colonelmagpie Update: Leg
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    Drawing - colonelmagpie 0.035 m 3.5 coa ore 35c Legelas figneker LgalasWhat de yaur Elf-eyesS Seer THEYRE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO SENGARDIN
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    Text - Science! colonelmagpie I'm going to do it. I'm going to hand it in. glumshoe Legolas's pupil size isn't the problem here, though. 5 leagues is 17.262 miles. The curvature of the Earth means that for a person of average height, the visual horizon is less than three miles away. Even if your vision is telescopic and the atmosphere is perfectly clear, you can't see around the planet. If they were standing on a hill, it would have to be at LEAST 198 feet above sea level in order to see the hor
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    Line art - an-actual-stone you mean like
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    Text - ontologicalidiot @sidereanuncia it's back, the post that I can only imagine haunts your nightmares sidereanuncia I shall never find peace. Also, for what it's worth, there's absolutely no reason to believe that the curvature of Middle Earth is the same as that of Earth
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    Text - sindri42 There's no evidence that Middle Earth curves. solwardenclyffe Yeah there is. The Silmarillion states that the world was curved after the fall of Numenor (I believe), preventing access to Valinor. But Elves (among others) can travel the straight path across it. So middle earth is round, but not for Elves because magic. sindri42 So wait, the reason he can see that far is because Elves just have the ability to ignore the curve of the earth? That's awesome. It also means that no matt
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    Text - a-bore-of-a-whore Elves are flat-earthers cheattoe This post went from amusing to horrifying, to be brought back down to amusing, sprinkled in with some cannon explanation, and then you leave me here in fucking outrage WILE yourownpetard This post really was a rollercoaster. odinoco for elves it was a straight line Source: sidereanuncia
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