The Dark Prince - moderate progress
Jan. 24th, 2012 10:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartI have managed to flesh out the motivation of my main protagonist - the one that would make him leave the Hidden City of the Moriquendi, and that would, in the end, lead to his great tragedy and his downfall.
Now I have a few nasty astronomical problems to figure out - particularly the question how on Earth did the Elves actually measure time with only the stars as their guides and spending literally Ages in permanent twilight.
I mean, we know that in Valinor the changing of the Light of the Two Trees was the means by which they did it, but back in Middle-earth, that wasn't an option. Too bad that I don't know a thing about stars, their rising and stuff, and haven't got the faintest idea how to reasearch it. *sighs*
Edit:: I've managed to hunt down some of Prof. Christine Larsen's articles about the astronomy of Middle-earth and the likely identification of stars and stellar consternations in Tolkien's work, but it's still far from enough. I might consider contacting her; after all, we did exchange a few emails, back in my early years on the Net.
Now I have a few nasty astronomical problems to figure out - particularly the question how on Earth did the Elves actually measure time with only the stars as their guides and spending literally Ages in permanent twilight.
I mean, we know that in Valinor the changing of the Light of the Two Trees was the means by which they did it, but back in Middle-earth, that wasn't an option. Too bad that I don't know a thing about stars, their rising and stuff, and haven't got the faintest idea how to reasearch it. *sighs*
Edit:: I've managed to hunt down some of Prof. Christine Larsen's articles about the astronomy of Middle-earth and the likely identification of stars and stellar consternations in Tolkien's work, but it's still far from enough. I might consider contacting her; after all, we did exchange a few emails, back in my early years on the Net.
