riddle me this, o tolkien nerds: the fractal dimensionality of fangorn

so it does work kinda sorta borderline just about, if you allow sidesteppage of i dunno, two strides for every one diagonal - think of the other two sides of an equilateral triangle

(is that a fractal dimensionality of 1.5? i forget how to calculate it)

(i think if TB had walked the *entire* SE->NW diagonal, tolk wd have said: it's surely not a day's journey - judged by onset of hobbithunger - and plus a little later, aragorn, gimli and legolam get major props from the rohirrim for running 135 miles in three days)

He did a number of European hiking trips when younger, in Switzerland in particular, possibly he saw something more like it then? Admittedly just as settled and gone over I'm sure but the ruggedness of the land would probably allow for wilder conditions.

legolam

I trust this was intentional. ;-)

tolkien never uses the subjunctive EVER! each time he writes "was" instead of "were" it goes clangggggg in my mind.

i think dwarves use the subjunctive. be he himself doesn't.

be = but

time for more cats* among other pigeons folks**

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/sjp.12477 : The Wretched of Middle-Earth: An Orcish Manifesto (Charles W. Mills)

*queen beruthiel's cats obv
**does the team have opinions?

also note my proof upthread that treebeard is based on the pinefox :D