Du fick mig att fundera över om Mordor sett i princip likadant ut hela tiden, Cotume. Vi vet att Sauron kontrollerade vädret i Mordor i hög utsträckning, vilket borde ha gjort en del skillnad....
Citera:
Sam crept out, and flitting from stone to stone with more than
hobbit-care, he went down to the water-course, and then followed it for some
way as it climbed north, until he came to the rock-steps where long ago, no
doubt, its spring had come gushing down in a little waterfall.
Så åtminstone på den platsen kom det mer nederbörd förr i världen. Om det fanns mer vatten förut så borde det ha funnits mer växtlighet och därmed kanske fler djur.
Citera:
Upon its outer marges under the westward mountains Mordor was a dying
land, but it was not yet dead. And here things still grew, harsh, twisted, bitter,
struggling for life. In the glens of the Morgai on the other side of the
valley low scrubby trees lurked and clung, coarse grey grass-tussocks fought
with the stones, and withered mosses crawled on them; and everywhere great
writhing, tangled brambles sprawled. Some had long stabbing thorns, some
hooked barbs that rent like knives. The sullen shrivelled leaves of a past
year hung on them, grating and rattling in the sad airs, but their
maggot-ridden buds were only just opening. Flies, dun or grey, or black,
marked like ores with a red eye-shaped blotch, buzzed and stung; and above
the briar-thickets clouds of hungry midges danced and reeled.
Nån annan än jag som reagerade på de där myggorna och att de var märkta med röda ögat?
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