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<blockquote data-quote="Gnarlo" data-source="post: 1095703" data-attributes="member: 2995">Was watching the Two Towers today, and got to pondering the scene with Gandalf and the Balrog falling into Durin's Deep. I started thinking about the question of how deep the Deep is, since Gimli states in the book that no one had ever plumbed its depths... The two of them fall in the movie for 70 seconds or so from the time that Gandalf lets go/ slips from the bridge; figuring the rate of acceleration and a terminal velocity of around 120 miles / hr (got that from several sky diving sites as an average, Gandalf could fall faster at the beginning when he was head down, but the pair of them bounce of the sides at several points slowing them down I'd imagine), I figure they fell roughly 10,000 feet in those 70 seconds... Any one got a better number or want to check the math?Yes, these are the things that keep me awake at night <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gnarlo, post: 1095703, member: 2995"] Was watching the Two Towers today, and got to pondering the scene with Gandalf and the Balrog falling into Durin's Deep. I started thinking about the question of how deep the Deep is, since Gimli states in the book that no one had ever plumbed its depths... The two of them fall in the movie for 70 seconds or so from the time that Gandalf lets go/ slips from the bridge; figuring the rate of acceleration and a terminal velocity of around 120 miles / hr (got that from several sky diving sites as an average, Gandalf could fall faster at the beginning when he was head down, but the pair of them bounce of the sides at several points slowing them down I'd imagine), I figure they fell roughly 10,000 feet in those 70 seconds... Any one got a better number or want to check the math? Yes, these are the things that keep me awake at night :) [/QUOTE]

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