User blog:TheStudyOfTheUnknown/Arda and today

I was researching how Arda could become the world today,

I started by looking at some overlays of middle earth and europe. I found the one on the LOTR wiki the best as it had solid evidence and theories. There was also alot of knowledge that I know some of you would want to suck up.

http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Europe

There was 2 problems. The map did not quite fit and where had all this water come from. Half of the middle earth overlay was land where the Europe overlay was sea.

The first problem would of mainly been due to the inaccurices of mapping back then. Latitude and longitude lines where only invented a couple thousand years ago and helped massively with map accuracy. There is also the fact that distortion used to go sideways then upwards which has only been since the 1600's

Some information on this topic if you do not know about it can be shown on this video by Vsauce. A great youtuber.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lR7s1Y6Zig

The second issue I tackled when I found a source stating that the 4th age might of ended in a great flood. This source also says that the writings could of finished where the bible left off, (discluding the creation of the earth.) Why not. Tolkiens work followed the same morals and the silmarillion had similar keypoints in the story. Morgoth to saton, etc

It states that the flood could be the same flood from the story of Noah. This is supported by Tolkiens unfinished sequel "The New Shadow" about the men of gondor becoming greedy and restless after 100 years of peace. Including the line of kings. The same reason god flooded the earth in the story of Noah. Information about this sequal can be found here

http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/The_New_Shadow

Heres the site that talked about the flood

http://middle-earth.xenite.org/2014/05/05/could-the-fourth-age-have-ended-with-the-noachian-flood/

After going through this I think I can find a mountain of information as I have just scratched the surface on one continent and a event that happened