• starman2112@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    Though God himself punched Arda so hard it went from a plane to a sphere almost solely because Sauron went to Númenor

    I don’t know what any of these nouns mean, but that sounds so much cooler than any real life mythology

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      8 months ago

      There is a god of the Tolkien universe. His name is Eru Ilúvatar.

      Arda is the planet that Middle Earth is on (with Middle Earth being a continent)

      Sauron is the main enemy in the LOTR trilogy

      Númenor was an island that the Valar (sub-dieties under Eru) created for men that helped in the fight against Melkor (also known as Morgoth), a Valar that turned evil and who was the boss of Sauron for a long time.

      The inhabitants of the island were blessed with long life, good health, etc, and their culture was very elven-inspired. Much of the upper class was part elven, even.

      Sauron tricked many of the Numenoreans to join his cause and take a fight to the other Valar, saying it’d give them immortality. Eru got angry, destroyed the island and reshaped Arda from flat to a sphere.