The drowning of Beleriand

[Gwaihir the Windlord]

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Re: The drowning of Beleriand

I would have thought that after the War of Wrath and the Great Battle, water began to flood in from the coasts slowly at first but then becoming quicker in a few months (as no-one seems to have been drowned by the Ruin of Beleriand). True, Lindon was further eroded and warped by the Akallabeth.
I think that the initial flood of the sea was very great at first, but then slowed down as the water calmed. The small isle of of Himring west of Lindon was the hill of Himring; it was covered by water but then 'rose again'. Same goes for the highlands of Taur-nu-Fuin; they were drowned but rose again after the initial flood had slowed down.

The Akallabeth, apart from making the Gulf of Lune and changing the course of the Lhun, generally eroded the West coasts of Middle-Earth. 'For Illuvitar cast back the the Great Sea West of Middle-Earth, and into the Empty Lands East of it'. Then new lands and seas were created. The East coasts, I presume, were more warped and changed by the floods than destroyed by them.

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