(10 feet per stride for a 14-ft being? i guess if ents are all abt the legs, maybe?)
― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 25 September 2004 10:36 (nineteen years ago) link
type "how many feet in a mile" into google and press submit!!
― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 25 September 2004 10:37 (nineteen years ago) link
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When people ask for homework advice on ILx, we should redirect them to wronganswers.com
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― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 25 September 2004 10:48 (nineteen years ago) link
if we think abt this v.v.v.hard we may be able to calculate the fractal decimal of the intra-dimensionality of the average step-per-step deviation from a straight line required for an ent-path to get from A-B in fangorn!
― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 25 September 2004 10:51 (nineteen years ago) link
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― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 25 September 2004 10:58 (nineteen years ago) link
http://ltrtm.free.fr/images/foret_de_fangorn.jpg
(but again the problematic of scale: yes there's a a figure for comparison but is it a man an elf or - unlikely - a hobbit?)
― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 25 September 2004 11:09 (nineteen years ago) link
Are we sure ents can count? Might he have been lying to pad his part?
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― Ricardo (RickyT), Saturday, 25 September 2004 17:34 (nineteen years ago) link
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)
― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 25 September 2004 17:45 (nineteen years ago) link
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. ;-)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 25 September 2004 17:54 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 5 May 2016 22:57 (seven years ago) link
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?
― mark s, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 11:09 (one year ago) link
also note my proof upthread that treebeard is based on the pinefox :D
― mark s, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 11:32 (one year ago) link