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Tolkien Topics: Movie Discussion: The Hobbit:
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moreorless
Mithlond
Sep 10 2014, 6:42pm
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WHY does Bomby have this Theory?
1. On the Back side of Pikes Peak, here in Colorado
is one of the Richest Square miles of minerals IZZ next
to the Town of Cripple Creek...An Extinct Volcano
cinder cone...
Mostly Gold & Silver was found there over 130 years ago.
Also!... next to the town of Central City due north of Cripple Creek
(about 100 miles) is another extinct Volcano cinder cone...
with another vast store of Gold & Silver, mined for over a hundred years TOO!
2. Not a Geologist , but someone here? might be?
3.The Vertical Shafts that Dwaves find so much,
aren't likely to have been Hollowed out by the Dwarves.
4. The Heat of Magma would have turned lesser minerals
into Gold, Silver...and
YES DIAMONDS, Sapphires, Rubys etc.
My assumption was always that it was a former volcano for many of the reasons you mention.
As far as the mechanisms that lead to volcano's often having deposites of precious metals and jems goes its a bit more complex. Metals like gold and silver are present in volcanos along subduction zones(like the Cascades) rather than volcanic plumes(such as Hawaii) actually due to the seawater in the subducted rock leching the normally finely spread minerals out of the rock and then depositing them in high concentrations as it cools. Diamonds and the like are generally forced by crystal growth under high pressure, again often involving water.
You need to remember of course that geology and more specifically plate tectonics is a science that has advanced greatly in recent decades, much of what we know today wasn't known pre war or even in the post war years Tolkien was working. Still I think Tolkiens geography does tend to stand up quite well although of course the mechanisms of Arda's creation in his work was divine. You could argue I spose that the Sil whilst clearly outlining divide influence is might refer to processes close to reality in Arda's ill defined early creation beyond the understanding of the elves.
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