DanielLB
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May 9 2014, 3:38pm
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Tolkien gives us the approximate height of Mount Doom in the book, ~4500ft above the plain of Gorgoroth:
The confused and tumbled shoulders of its great base rose for maybe three thousand feet above the plain, and above them was reared half as high again its tall central cone, like a vast oast or chimney capped with a jagged crater. But already Sam was more than half way up the base, and the plain of Gorgoroth was dim below him, wrapped in fume and shadow And Bilbo observed Erebor's snowline in spring:
There far away was the Lonely Mountain on the edge of eyesight. On its highest peak snow yet unmelted was gleaming pale. We know that Erebor is relatively far north, and would have had a continental climate. The snowline decreases in height with increasing latitude - I guess Erebor had to be at least over 3300ft. Which is handy, because it agrees with Fonstad's estimate of 3500 ft. But I'd go for a little higher than that. (Though in the films, both Mount Doom/Ngauruhoe and CGI Erebor are much higher than these estimates)
(This post was edited by DanielLB on May 9 2014, 3:42pm)
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