Posted: December 25, 1999 at 14:46:42: by Michael Martinez
: Obviously, between the events in the Silmarillion and in The
: Hobbit and LotR, the geography of ME changes dramatically.
: Tolkien does, I remember, somewhere make some cursory remarks
: about this, but never treats the transfiguration in any detail.
: Has anyone ever attempted to establish correlations between the
: two maps presented in LotR and Silmarillion? What happened to
: ME that it was so changed?The grid-marked maps in HOME are supposedly overlayable. Christopher Tolkien discusses this in one of the books, but I don't recall which one and am a little pressed for time right now. Basically, the Ered Luin chain was shortened (losing its southern peaks) and a gap was opened in the remaining mountans. Most of the land to the west of he Ered Luin sank into the sea (although it should more properly be said to have been destroyed by eruptions -- upheavals in the crust, great chasms opening due to the stresses put on the land by the Valar and Maiar, etc.). In the distant east the inland sea of Helcar was destroyed. I would guess that new lands rose up to compensate for the loss of land in the west. Presumably there would have been a lot of flooding. And all that remained (ultimately) of the inland sea was the little Sea of Rhun.
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