La terre du milieu / Middle-earth

Peter Bird un professeur de géophysique et de géopgraphie de l'université UCLA a superposé la carte de la terre-du-milieu de Tolkien à celle de l'europe.
En abaissant le niveau de la mer et des océans, ont obtient une étrange similitude quand à la topologie des lieux (mer, montagnes, plaines, etc..)

Source
> http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/06/03/121-where-on-earth-was-middle-earth/

La terre-du-milieu en europe
> http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/middle-earth.jpg


Europe géographique avec plateaux océaniques (approximatif)
> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Europe_geographique_grande.jpg


Carte terre-du-milieu
> http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6447/2963/1600/middle-earth.jpg


Plateaux océaniques
> http://www.scientox-web.info/IMG/jpg/terre_boule.jpg

Oui, la Terre du Milieu est sensée être l'Europe des temps anciens dans les histoires de Tolkien.

Et les elfes viens des USA?, ce normal s'ils ont lair con dans naheulbeuk ^^

jester a écrit:

Et les elfes viens des USA?

LOL i think you are right:

• they all think they are great, a superior race
  
• they live in a world that doesnt exist
  

I think this professor should stop wasting time in something that anyone a bit interested on Middle-Earth can find by him/herself, and use his knowlenge in something more usefull... dunno like... what about the world change because of the fucked up weather?

But this "pseudo" professor can't do someting like that.
He is only a spécialist of Tolkien 's geography and don't know anything else.
He must be blond i think...and American for not arrange things...

That professor must be one elf too, like them he likes to waste his time with dumb theories. Most likely he must be a half-elf (and half-blond).

PS: Aurora, you have forgotten one point more for your theory: They think that they can save the world by themselves.

C'est dingue comme un sujet sur les oeuvres de Tolkien peut dériver sur tout à fait autre chose qui n'a rien à voir...

(^_^)

No Satory, you are not understanding what we are talking here. We are actually helping the professor with his theory
Sorry, but i just can not understand how people waste energy in useless things when the real world is so fucked up....
I mean, i looooooove Tolkien, and i think those things (literature, games, any kind of art...) are necessary, people need to disconnect, relax, but doing a study about it, its going to far... How is that going to change my life or my daughter's life? I dont see how...
That's why i was joking about it. I rather joke that get too serious... Keep the good mood on! ^^

And Sam, he is not blondie, he is bold with 3 white hairs He has a pic in his website. And nothing about a "pseudo-professor", he teachs in a University in USA!

And Jester, yessssssss you are soo right, i actually forgot the first and more important point!

Boooofff University teacher in USA...it's easy to become.
Even a European mental deficient can teach something to this "superior race".

I think this profesor is a european Geek, who escape from europe for create a new geek's compagnie who live in Tolkien "elf grey haven".