Hm. Nothing wrong with fooling around; if I thought that I wouldn't be writing fic - and even contradictions do factor into that. But exploring the canonical science of Middle-earth ought to have included that particular tidbit of research. Is the book worth reading, otherwise?
(And this is the signal for me to get out Myths Transformed and reread. I think I only read that once, enough for basic familiarity, and then put it away in some disgust - quite different disgust than the one after perusing the LaCE - because it was messing with the mythological cosmology of the published Silmarillion that I love(d) so much...)
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Hm. Nothing wrong with fooling around; if I thought that I wouldn't be writing fic - and even contradictions do factor into that. But exploring the canonical science of Middle-earth ought to have included that particular tidbit of research. Is the book worth reading, otherwise?
(And this is the signal for me to get out Myths Transformed and reread. I think I only read that once, enough for basic familiarity, and then put it away in some disgust - quite different disgust than the one after perusing the LaCE - because it was messing with the mythological cosmology of the published Silmarillion that I love(d) so much...)