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there flew down from the high airs Thorondor, King of Eagles, mightiest of all birds that have ever been, whose outstretched wings spanned thirty fathoms
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Most of you have read this line. Did you ever find it fasinating? I mean thats ONE BIG BIRDY!!! Well I always did, but not until today did I measure it against other things we know, for example:
Thirdy fanthoms is equivelent to some 57 meters or 62,5 yards.
In comparison we have two well know war airplanes:
The Spitfire: wingspan 11.2 meters
B-52 Bomber: wingspan 56,3 meters
We dont have to start a discussion about this, but it does raise other amusing aspects, such as: airstrips in ME, how much space did Thorondor need to land?
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