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Moon (Middle-earth) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Moon was valued as higher than the Sun by the Elves, both because it came from the Elder Tree, and because it rose first: it was made in memory of the Elves. The Man in the Moon is even described in those writings, as being an old Elf who secretly hid on the island of the Moon, and built his minaret there. In the Round World version of the legendarium, the Sun and the Moon were not the fruit of the Two Trees, but actually preceded the creation of the Trees. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moon_(Middle-earth)   (385 words)

Spherical Earth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The shadow of Earth on the Moon during a lunar eclipse is round. Earth's circumference was estimated around 240 BC by Eratosthenes, who heard about a place in Egypt where the Sun was directly overhead at the summer solstice and used geometry to come up with a circumference of 250,000 stades. This idea probably replaced widespread belief in a flat Earth: In early Mesopotamian thought the world was portrayed as a flat disk floating in the ocean, and this forms the premise for early Greek maps like those of Anaximander and Hecataeus. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Round_World   (341 words)

Man in the Moon (Middle-earth) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tolkien's Middle-earth folklore as set forth from the Hobbots, the Man in the Moon is described as being an old being who secretly hid on the island of the Moon, and built his minaret there. Combined with the Elven lore, as presented in the legendarium of Silmarillion, the Man in the Moon of the Hobbits' tales must have his origins in the legend of Tilion the Maia. This is alluded to further in Tolkien's Roverandom, where the Man in the Moon also lives in a Minaret. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Man_in_the_Moon_(Middle-earth)   (178 words)

lunar_eclipse.html From Earth, a lunar eclipse occurs when Sun, Earth and Moon are in a single line with Earth in the middle. If this occurs, the Moon (or part of it) does not receive light from the Sun because it is in the shadow of the Earth, and thus the Moon becomes invisible even though there would normally have been a full moon. If you were on the Moon during a lunar eclipse you would witness a solar eclipse, with the Earth passing in front of the Sun. www.online-encyclopedia.info /encyclopedia/l/lu/lunar_eclipse.html   (363 words)

The Moon The moon's gravity is one-sixth that of the Earth's; a man who weighs 180 lbf (pound-force) on Earth weighs only 30 lbf on the Moon. This concentration may be explained by the fact that the Moon's center of mass is offset from its geometric center by about 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) in the direction of Earth, probably because the crust is thicker on the farside. The Moon was heavily bombarded early in its history, which caused many of the original rocks of the ancient crust to be thoroughly mixed, melted, buried, or obliterated. www.solarviews.com /eng/moon.htm   (2472 words)

The Origin of the Moon Our idea was that in the case of Earth (but not the other planets) the impact happened late enough, and in such a direction relative to Earth's rotation, that abundant enough middle material was thrown out to make a moon. Earth has a mean density of 5.5 grams/cubic centimeter, but the moon has a density of only 3.3 g/cc. One early theory was that the moon is a sister world that formed in orbit around Earth as the Earth formed. www.psi.edu /projects/moon/moon.html   (1158 words)

StarChild: The Moon As the Moon continues its revolution around Earth, the Sun, Earth, and Moon align with the Earth in the middle. The gravitational pull of the Moon on the Earth affects the ocean tides on Earth. When the Moon is between the Sun and the Earth, the side of the Moon facing the Earth is dark. starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov /docs/StarChild/solar_system_level2/moon.html   (657 words)

Eyes on the Sky, Feet on the Ground: Chapter Six The theories of its origin are many and varied: the moon was a piece spun off from the earth, possibly from the Pacific Ocean basin floor, which subsequently caused the continental drift; the Earth had captured a large, perfectly spherical asteroid or meteorite; rings of orbiting materials around the Earth accreted into a moon. The Moon's diameter is one quarter the diameter of the Earth, around 2000 miles, but its mass is one hundredth the mass of the Earth. Some cultures trying to explain the different shapes of the moon (phases) saw them as the story of life and death: the crescent moon is the infant, growing stronger and stronger until maturity at full moon and then growing weaker and weaker and then dying at new moon, only to be born again. hea-www.harvard.edu /ECT/the_book/Chap6/Chapter6.html   (4247 words)

Inconstant Moon: The Moon at Perigee and Apogee Earth's orbital motion is toward the left, with the arrow at the top showing how far the Earth and Moon travel along their common orbit about the Sun every hour. Since the Moon was, at that moment, south of the equator as seen from Earth, an observer in the northern hemisphere was additionally displaced northward and could see farther past the north pole of the Moon. Since the Moon's is tidally locked to the Earth, it rotates on its axis in a time equal to the time in which it completes an orbit around the Earth. www.fourmilab.ch /earthview/moon_ap_per.html   (3343 words)

Gazing at the Crescent Earth If we were to stand in the middle of the moon (as viewed from Earth) our blue planet would appear directly overhead. Since the moon rotates on its axis in the same period of time as it revolves around the Earth, one side of the moon is always facing the Earth and one side is always turned away from the Earth. However, the Earth would be in the opposite phase of the Moon as seen from Earth. starryskies.com /articles/dln/10-98/earth.html   (629 words)

Middle Earth, Week 1 I conclude that in Middle Earth the solstices and equinoxes mark the midpoints of the seasons, not their changes. The night preceding the Battle of Five Armies is descibed as "dark and moonless." This may only mean that it was overcast, or that the moon set early or rose late, but it may mean that the Battle followed the dark of the moon, that is on the day of the next new moon. I would reckon that as the last new moon before the winter solstice, but a careful reading of "The Hobbit" shows that, for them, Midsummer and Midsummer's Eve fall in June, while Yule (traditionally a celebration of the winter solstice) falls in midwinter. home.comcast.net /~evholmes/Tuesday/Tolkien/Tolkien-1.html   (882 words)

Earth In heliocentric astrology, the Moon is not noted on the chart, since from the vantage point of the Sun, the Moon is always essentially in the same place as the Earth. Since the Earth's position in our heliocentric chart is always directly opposite the Sun's position in our geocentric charts, this means there is always an opposition between the geocentric symbol of our "core self" and the heliocentric symbol of mother and nurturing. On a heliocentric chart Earth is noted, and its placement in the zodiac is exactly opposite the Sun's position in the geocentric chart for the same time. members.aol.com /sun04sc09/earth.htm   (620 words)

Middle Earth Races The Noldor pursued Melkor to Middle Earth, and swore a terrible oath in disobedience of the Valar, and fought the fruitless war of the Silmarills. All elves in Middle Earth are ageless, untouched by sickness or pestilence. Thus some of the Teleri were in Middle Earth, and never saw the light of Aman, and were called the Moriquendi, the elves of the dark. www.fortunecity.com /victorian/byzantium/55/merpadd.htm   (2549 words)

Man In The Moon Marigolds He wants the Moon legally under his control, not so much as a personal fiefdom but as a longer term prospect for humanity in general, but that does not stop him from doing what he believes necessary: "I would cheat, lie, steal beg, bribe — do ''anything'' to accomplish what we have to". The figure is composed of large dark areas (the lunar maria, or seas) on the Moon's surface. The Man in the Moon is a figure resembling a human face, perceived in the full Moon in some cultures. www.wwwtln.com /finance/120/man-in-the-moon-marigolds.html   (729 words)

Encyclopedia of Arda: The Moon According to the legends of the Elves, Tilion was an unsteady steersman, sometimes dwelling overlong beneath the Earth, or appearing in the sky at the same time as the Sun. The Moon first rose above Valinor in the far West of the World, but Varda came to change this arrangement, so that the Moon would pass beneath the World, and arise in the east instead, as it does to this day. This peculiar figure seems to be an echo of the being described in the Elves' stories, the Maia and hunter Tilion, wayward steersman of the Moon. www.glyphweb.com /arda/m/moon.html   (473 words)

Fortresses and Towers of Middle-earth Paler indeed than the moon ailing in some slow eclipse was the light of it now, wavering and blowing like a noisome exhalation of decay, a corpse-light, a light that illuminated nothing. In the middle of the next night, the Huorns buried the Orcs under a hill of stones that became known as the Death Down where no man dared to walk. The earth groaned; and out of the city there came a cry. www.tuckborough.net /fortress.html   (7269 words)

Lost Legends From Middle Earth Middle Earth a land fashioned by J R R Tolkien, filled with fantastic beasts and races of many kinds.Wonderous landscapes abound from high mountain peak to the deepest darkest depths. From there other tales grew, they flowed from the void through me and onto my computer screen, creative writings happened along the way, those will be included here, along with pictures that have inspired me as I have built these stories back into the fabric of Middle Earth. So inspired by Tolkien's Lord of the Rings I set out to write the story of Elnineth, a small Maair-Hobbit who truely should never have been, but who eventually with her own Fellowship of the Star travel to Mordor to right a great wrong. elnineth.councilofelrond.net   (256 words)

GreenBooks.TheOneRing.net™ Special Guest The Science of Middle-earth -- An Ongoing Series As part of the Earth's fabric, the Elves use, understand and respect the Earth as easily as if it were part of their own bodies. This is perhaps only to be expected for beings that are tied to the fate of the Earth in a way that is not true of Men. Tolkien's great powers are ambiguous: the forces of evil, large and small -- Gollum, Saruman, Sauron, even Melkor -- started off with good intentions, but in their quest to work out the minutiae, looking ever deeper into the Earth, rather than up at the stars, they lost sight of the bigger picture of harmonious nature. greenbooks.theonering.net /guest/files/071503.html   (1641 words)

The Quentae Fellowship !!! This is the story of Sheia, First of Quentae, and her adventures on Middle Earth near the end of the Third Age. Sheia on Middle Earth Chapter 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14- Other stories take place in fictional realities other than Middle Earth so still fall into the fan fiction catagory. www.angelfire.com /moon/iceheart/Quentae_Fellowship.html   (944 words)

Allthings2all: Inside Middle Earth Middle Earth is beautiful, but not everyone is liberated yet. I often hear from people about how beautiful it is here in Middle Earth (New Zealand-Aotearoa). Although it's sad seeing how some people are living they are interesting to talk with, and it's enjoyable driving in a van with a group of Christians as we go from place to place. allthings2all.blogspot.com /2004/09/inside-middle-earth.html   (616 words)

Orc (Middle-earth) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article According to the oldest "theory" proposed by Tolkien, Orcs were transformed from Elves — the purest form of life on (An agency of the Intelligence Community that conducts advanced research and development related to information technology) Arda (the Earth) — by means of torture and mutilation. Moreover, if Orcs were in fact Elves at their core, this could perhaps mean that they were also immortal — a fact which, if true, would seem inconsistent with Tolkien's treatment of Orcs, though the books do not openly confirm or deny it. In Tolkien's writings, evil is not capable of independent creation, making it unlikely that the (Click link for more info and facts about vala) vala (Click link for more info and facts about Melkor) Melkor (later called Morgoth), who was obviously the first to produce them, could do that ex nihilo. www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/O/Or/Orc_(Middle-earth)1.htm   (2788 words)

SPACE.com -- Researchers and space enthusiasts see helium-3 as the perfect fuel source. "Helium 3 could be the cash crop forthe moon," said Kulcinski, a longtime advocate and leading pioneer in thefield, who envisions the moon becoming "the Hudson Bay Store of Earth."Today helium 3 would have a cash value of $4 billion a ton in terms ofits energy equivalent in oil, he estimates. The moon would be a stepping stone to other helium 3-rich sources,such as the atmospheres of Saturn and Uranus. Apollo astronauts found helium 3 onthe moon in 1969, but the link between the isotope and lunar resourceswas not made until 1986. www.space.com /scienceastronomy/helium3_000630.html   (1168 words)

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Middle-earth Timeline From this fruit and flower the Valar prepare the Moon and Sun. Laurelin bears a single fruit of gold and Telperion a flower of silver, then both trees die. Fëanor betrays his brother Fingolfin and his family and take all the Teleri ships. www.infoplease.com /spot/lotr-timeline.html   (813 words)

Middle Earth: The Wizards I doubt there is any fantasy background anywhere near as rich, deep and believable as Middle Earth and it remains the only fantasy book where I have been able to read 'silly' names without problems. Each turn sees your groups of characters moving around Middle Earth, fighting, resting, recruiting, dying and experiencing the usual peaks and troughs of the fantasy novel. The drawback is that it can be quite hard to visualise where you are trekking, and which regions to play, unless you are intimately familiar with Middle Earth geography. www.gamecabinet.com /reviews/MiddleEarthTW.html   (5624 words)

Amazon.com: Books: From the Earth to the Moon Jules Verne's novel "From the Earth to the Moon" is the imaginative story of an attempt, made shortly after the U.S. Civil War, to send a projectile to the moon. My boyfriend bought From the Earth to the Moon, and since he is an Astrophysics student I expected that he would have enjoyed finding about people's conceptions about going to the moon at that early time. Verne writes a great story in From the Earth to the Moon, ending on a cliff hanger that leaves you wondering, exploring all the science of his day, and the possibilities therein. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553214209?v=glance   (2401 words)

The Ultimate Durin's Day - American History Information Guide and Reference The first day of the Dwarves' year is the day that begins the last cycle of the Moon to begin in autumn. When on this day both the Sun and Moon may be seen in the sky together, it is called Durin's Day. In The Hobbit, the writing on the map that Gandalf had received from Thráin II mentioned Durin's Day. www.historymania.com /american_history/Durin%27s_Day   (115 words)

The Astronomy of Middle Tolkien reflected that while he was revising his mythology he was "inclined to adhere to the flat earth and the astronomically absurd business of making the sun and moon. Varda commanded the Moon to journey in like manner, and passing under Earth to arise in the east, but only after the Sun had descended from heaven. This continued to bother Tolkien, along with the deeper issues of a flat earth (as it was before the destruction of Númenor) and the problems of creating the sun and moon in any realistic manner. www.physics.ccsu.edu /larsen/astronomy_of_middle.htm   (6230 words)

Days & Dates of Middle-earth Durin's Day occurred only when the Moon and the Sun were in the sky together on the Dwarves' New Year's Day - which was the first day of the last Moon of autumn. At last, on the first day of the last week of autumn, Bilbo Baggins heard a thrush knocking and he saw a new Moon in the sky with the setting Sun. It was Durin's Day, and the light of the setting sun revealed the key-hole to the secret door leading into the Lonely Mountain. www.tuckborough.net /days.html   (1081 words)

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