Martin Rundkvist on Nostr: In "The Fall of Gondolin", #Tolkien informs us that the fountains before the doors of ...
In "The Fall of Gondolin", #Tolkien informs us that the fountains before the doors of the king's palace shot 27 fathoms into the air, that is, 49.4 metres. This suggests an earlier version of the text where the fountains were 50 metres tall, and that Tolkien *calculated* how many fathoms this was when he switched to an older unit of measurement.
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