• kalpol@lemmy.ca
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      26 days ago

      So the Dead Marshes were the site of the great battle of Dagorlad, with the dead buried in layers of peat and water. Over time organic matter decays into fossil fuels. So Middle-earth gasoline is not refined from dinosaurs but from dead elves

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        The first elf that died did so because her son was an insufferable shit. The elves had no idea what the fuck had just happened. She lay down in the garden, announced that her son had sucked all the life out of her, and returned to the Halls of Mandos where she cried a lot.

        They tended to her unrotting body for centuries before realizing she wasn’t coming back.

        When her son died, it’s said his body just disintegrated to ash from the fire of his spirit leaving.

        So I’m not sure what the hell happens to elves when they die. Maybe nothing, maybe a violent exothermic reaction. Maybe oil!