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Because gravity is an acceleration, not velocity, the longer you fall the faster you go.
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only until you reach Terminal Velocity. (hey, that sounds like a great name for a film, doesn't it?)
PS, regarding gravity (which seems to be the main problem on this thread),
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And of course certain basic principles apply, such as gravity -- thankfully!
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who says middle-earth had the same gravity as our Earth? (yes, before you say it, I've heard it's meant to be Earth 10,000 years or so ago......) In a world where the elves only lived in starlight for a while, in a world where you can make someone invisible with a magic ring, in a world where some can have immortality, in a world that was once straight and now bent, in a world where you can get on a ship and travel away form the mortal coil, why can't we have Legolas shooting an arrow up at grima and hit him perfectly?
PPS re the beacons
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those people live up there in the mountains where a blizzard can easily destroy those miserable huts?
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This actually IS based on fact.