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Saturday, November 26, 2005

Iceberg Songs

To quote Gimli, Son of Gloin: Talking trees. What do trees have to talk about, hmm? Except the consistency of squirrel droppings.  Wonder what he would think of singing icebergs?

BTW, I wrote to The Alfred Wegener Institute's Dr. Christian Müller, hoping to find a digital recording of the sounds they discovered.  Probably won't respond, but what the heck...

ntodd

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Come to think of it, it seems apparent that Middle Earth was a temperate zone; no ice floes or icebergs there.

Posted by: Linkmeister | Nov 26, 2005 2:11:54 PM

It was strangely heavy going in the mountain pass snows which forced them to go back and go through the Mines of Moria. Other than that, were there any other snow scenes?

Posted by: ellroon | Nov 26, 2005 10:12:48 PM

Just remembered, NTodd, didn't you write about when you and Stef listened to the lake groaning and popping as it froze? Would have been interesting to hear those tones sped up too.

Posted by: ellroon | Nov 26, 2005 10:26:33 PM

No. I thought of that scene at Caradhras, but that's the only one I remember. Cold, yes; the elven cloaks kept the hobbits warmer than they'd otherwise have been, but no heavy snows. And the story takes place across a full year to fifteen month period, so there would have been a winter. Of course, they spent a fair bit of time in Rivendell, where time slowed down; maybe outside it was miserable.

Posted by: Linkmeister | Nov 27, 2005 1:17:39 AM

Link - Well, the snows were heavy enough to bury the hobbits on Caradhras, and there was a fell voice in the air, so dunno.

ellroon - yeah, last Xmas eve we heard the sounds. Hopefully we'll catch them again, and I'll record with my digital recorder this time.

Posted by: NTodd | Nov 27, 2005 9:52:34 AM

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