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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9041198" data-attributes="member: 29398">The ones around Mordor, no; and that's one aspect of Middle Earth that has bugged me since I first read the books.The rest of them are quite plausible based on what we see on Earth.There's a difference between realistic, theoretically possible, and impossible.&nbsp; Some of his mountain ranges are pretty much impossible*, however a 3000-year kingdom, while unlikely, is theoretically possible; even more so in a world that didn't undergo the technological advances** ours has.That said, in many RPG settings you've also got a) deities who occasionally mess with things and b) adventuring characters who sometimes gain the ability to literally reshape the world (say he, whose character was in part responsible for sinking 3/4 of a continent).* - if he'd made internal Mordor a very high plateau rather than leaving it pretty much the same elevation as the surrounding areas he'd have got it right.** - an aspect which also falls - barely - under theoretically possible, but isn't very realistic given what we see on Earth.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 9041198, member: 29398"] The ones around Mordor, no; and that's one aspect of Middle Earth that has bugged me since I first read the books. The rest of them are quite plausible based on what we see on Earth. There's a difference between realistic, theoretically possible, and impossible. Some of his mountain ranges are pretty much impossible*, however a 3000-year kingdom, while unlikely, is theoretically possible; even more so in a world that didn't undergo the technological advances** ours has. That said, in many RPG settings you've also got a) deities who occasionally mess with things and b) adventuring characters who sometimes gain the ability to literally reshape the world (say he, whose character was in part responsible for sinking 3/4 of a continent). * - if he'd made internal Mordor a very high plateau rather than leaving it pretty much the same elevation as the surrounding areas he'd have got it right. ** - an aspect which also falls - barely - under theoretically possible, but isn't very realistic given what we see on Earth. [/QUOTE]

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