Making all that extra poison constantly ain't cheap. You also have to keep it from killing you. Which means they absolutely needed that much poison. What horror lies beneath Australia...
it's always been obvious to me that we need something to fill the gap between awk and excel, but please please not excel. please. among the 8 billion people on earth, someone has to have a better idea
i would just like to mention that the physics of the universe in LOTR are obviously very different, since you can sometimes see stars during the day, if you're in a deep valley
the world was flat until numenor made war on the undying lands. at that point, numenor sank and the world was made round and the undying lands were placed somehow outside them, so that elves could still sail west along the straight way and get there, but everyone else just sailed west around the globe.
later, tolkien changed his mind about a lot of this and played with it, trying to turn it into an always roundworld (scientifically accurate myth was his goal at this point) but couldnt really figure out how it'd work and he was old and then he died
no, that's not why. it's because elves can just see better. it's the same reason they can walk on top of snow. they are slightly outside the laws that apply to ordinary humans. even aragorn is a hair over the line.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZC1VZPBybo
you be the judge. it's titled "my removed smells good" oslt