#doggerland

[vloerbrood]

😔😔

[tenleaguesbeneath]

Two facts that I've long struggled to reconcile are that The Lord of the Rings is supposed to be a story about and for England, and yet it's very clearly set on a continental mainland.

I've finally figured out how to fit these facts together neatly, though: the Third Age ended before Doggerland sank. Britain was not an island until at least some time into the Fourth Age.

This would also explain where the Orcs went; the elves all sailed off to Numenor, and the Orcs had their homelands, such as Mordor, become the seabed of the North Sea.

[thestoryhollow]

Spotted this at the museum. My sister looked at me funny when all I could say was “Dang it, Terry Pratchett!”

[autisticexpression2]

Sunken landmasses that never existed:

Atlantis

Kumari Kandam

Lemuria

Mu

Sunken landmasses that actually existed:

Balkanatolia

Beringia

Doggerland

Ferdinandia

Greater Adria

Kerguelen Plateau

Maui Nui

Sahul

Sundaica

Zealandia

[sourcreammachine]

[vloerbrood]

💨💨💨

(al though no particles (yet))

[rhunedhel]

...In Sirion stand structures (or what of them remains), the posts striated by scorchmarks below the stratum of the years... Who knows what is hidden under the sea? (Especially in Tolkien's Middle Earth!)

alliteration.net/poetry/the-archeology-of-doggerland-and-old-beleriand-alike/

[analogousstructureamrod]

I just keep thinking about Doggerland and Beleriand. The parallels are there!

Doggerland being a landmass that connected england and the rest of Europe that was covered by water due to rising sea levels (and at one point was island before completely submerged)

Beleriand connected to middle earth (representing england) and sunk due to rising sea levels, leaving behind a few islands. (according to Wikipedia it was a rapid rise in sea level as well)

There’s been research about it since the early 1900s, which means that there is a non zero chance that Tolkien could’ve heard about it.

I can’t be the only one who sees, at least, a slight connection.