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Erebor vs Amon Amarth. Who's the tallest? //

Bracegirdle
Valinor


May 9 2014, 2:26pm

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Erebor vs Amon Amarth. Who's the tallest? // Can't Post

 

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BlackFox
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May 9 2014, 3:03pm

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Mount Doom // [In reply to] Can't Post

 


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DanielLB
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May 9 2014, 3:38pm

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Well ... ;-) [In reply to] Can't Post

Tolkien gives us the approximate height of Mount Doom in the book, ~4500ft above the plain of Gorgoroth:


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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:


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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.

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(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)


Bracegirdle
Valinor


May 9 2014, 5:06pm

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Nice roundUP Daniel.... [In reply to] Can't Post

And I agree with you ..

Might we also consider that Mt. Doom was active and still growing (Sauron's Road needed constant tending etc.)

Whereas Erebor was dormant for many hundreds of years (assuming once-upon-a-time it WAS an active volcano)..
So their height differential would be increasing over time....

Confusticate & bebother the movies - I'm a book-firster & foreverer!

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(Though in the films, both Mount Doom/Ngauruhoe and CGI Erebor are much higher than these estimates)


 
 

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