[ SECRET POST #4331 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4331 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Sabrina the Teenage Witch reboot]


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[The Great British Bake Off, series 9]


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[K/DA - POP/STARS - League of Legends]


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[Pointless (Australia)]


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[Penny Dreadful]


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[Diablo Mobile/Blizzard]










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Comments

[soldatsasha]

I'm less bothered by them lining the edges with mountains, and more bothered that the mountains and rivers never seem to make any kind of geographical sense.

[(Anonymous)]

Mountains were never the bit of fantasy maps that bothered me geographically. I just assume funky plate tectonics or the like. They never really look that much weirder than real mountain ranges do. I mean, Mordor's lovely rectangle looks odd, but in RL you could just stretch out the arms of the Carpathians a bit and you'd get a similar effect. Rivers aren't usually that bad either, since most people do at least grasp the whole 'runs from higher to lower ground' thing. It was always climates and biomes where things started looking wonky to me.

[(Anonymous)]

I was reading these two articles about just that not long ago:

Tolkien’s Map and The Messed Up Mountains of Middle-earth:

https://www.tor.com/2017/08/01/tolkiens-map-and-the-messed-up-mountains-of-middle-earth/


Tolkien’s Map and the Perplexing River Systems of Middle-earth:

https://www.tor.com/2017/10/10/tolkiens-map-and-the-perplexing-river-systems-of-middle-earth/

I like the mountain one, but the river one bugs me since he acts like there needs to be significant vertical relief between drainage basins when in reality drainage divides, even between major systems, can be very low and subtle (someone in the comments mentions the Traverse Gap, which was the first thing that sprang to my mind). As for the Anduin flowing parallel to the Misty Mountains, that makes perfect sense of there is higher ground to the west (see the Ganges and Brahmaputra flowing parallel with the Himalayas because of higher ground to the south) and this high ground is either too gentle to show up as mountains or was just left off the map. That brings up the issue of the mapmaker's knowledge. If a map is created by Bilbo or Frodo and they don't know a lot about what things look like in the east, then they won't be drawing lots of topography and tributaries and things on the map. I fully agree that the Entwash delta at its confluence with the Anduin is really goofy, though.

TL;DR the mountains of Middle Earth make no sense, but the rivers aren't all that bad.

[soldatsasha]

I don't have time to read those atm but they look super interesting and I'll probably read them tonight.

Maybe it's just bc I find geography super interesting, but I appreciate when creators take the time to get it right, and I also appreciate when fans over analyze things.