Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-33185350-20171020205609/@comment-26149161-20171104020152

S&#039;moregoth wrote: 168.216.131.98 wrote: 707Mithrandir wrote: This may be unnecessary, but I think it would be interesting if players and overworld mobs took heat damage below a certain depth, because realistically, the deeper you go, the warmer it gets. Actually, it gets colder first, then hatter. So the deeper areas should have an effect like Forodwaith, seeing as it's to far from the sun to be warmed, & also to far from the core to be hot, or even moderatly warm. That is also based on real-life, not Middle Earth. I don't know what Tolkien was intending when he wrote The Lord of the Rings, but in the Silmarillion, he specifically states that the Sun and Moon (which are actually a Fruit from the Golden Tree and a Flower from the Silver Tree, respectively) are driven by Maiar in chariots (or something like that), and that they return to Valinor by going through caves under Arda.

Because of that, it might be interesting if you would be able to see the Sun or Moon if you tunneled through the bottom layer. . . Tolkien actually tried to revise this later in life, thinking it was too unrealistic. He never wrote it out in a finished format, but mapped out how exactly it would work. Since Arda is Earth, I imagine the geology would also be the same.

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