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Update: Legolas’ pupils are about 3.5 cm wide each. Now drawing kawaii Legolas on physics assignment.
And they told you science was no fun.
Science!
I’m going to do it. I’m going to hand it in.
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 horizon at 17.2 miles away, with nothing tall in between. Which, knowing Rohan, isn’t impossible.
But consider: Elven satellite eyeballs.
you mean like
@sidereanuncia it’s back, the post that I can only imagine haunts your nightmares
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.
There’s no evidence that Middle Earth curves.
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.
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 matter how good your optics got, you would always want elf eyes manning the spyglass because they can see arbitrarily far while everybody else is limited by this ‘horizon’ bullshit.
Oh thank God, my poor elf prince has seen too much in this post
elves can’t ignore the curve of the earth – the “straight path” is a metaphor referring to the way to get to valinor through space, not the literal curvature of the earth. in the past, valinor was just another continent to the west of middle-earth and theoretically anyone could go there, but then ilúvatar got mad and chunked it into space above the planet and curved the earth and only gave the elves the knowledge to sail up through space and get to it
Whooaaa! Tolkien FANDOM getting hardd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this was real william don’t use those exclamation point at me all this stuff was real OK
(Your picture was not posted)
tripropellant:
jooferslannister:
tripropellant:
lady-of-greenwood:
sindri42:
solwardenclyffe:
sindri42:
sidereanuncia:
ontologicalidiot:
an-actual-stone:
glumshoe:
colonelmagpie:
colonelmagpie:
colonelmagpie:
colonelmagpie:
Evidence:
Update: Legolas’ pupils are about 3.5 cm wide each. Now drawing kawaii Legolas on physics assignment.
And they told you science was no fun.
Science!
I’m going to do it. I’m going to hand it in.
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 horizon at 17.2 miles away, with nothing tall in between. Which, knowing Rohan, isn’t impossible.
But consider: Elven satellite eyeballs.
you mean like
@sidereanuncia it’s back, the post that I can only imagine haunts your nightmares
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.
There’s no evidence that Middle Earth curves.
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.
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 matter how good your optics got, you would always want elf eyes manning the spyglass because they can see arbitrarily far while everybody else is limited by this ‘horizon’ bullshit.
Oh thank God, my poor elf prince has seen too much in this post
elves can’t ignore the curve of the earth – the “straight path” is a metaphor referring to the way to get to valinor through space, not the literal curvature of the earth. in the past, valinor was just another continent to the west of middle-earth and theoretically anyone could go there, but then ilúvatar got mad and chunked it into space above the planet and curved the earth and only gave the elves the knowledge to sail up through space and get to it
Whooaaa! Tolkien FANDOM getting hardd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this was real william don’t use those exclamation point at me all this stuff was real OK
(Your picture was not posted)
