#17: The Planet of Arda is Completed
Date: Before the Sun and Moon
My Mood Is: exhausted
Well, it's finally done. It wasn't too bad -- what with assembling the mathematical framework, building the initial singularity, setting off universal expansion, installing inflation and setting the Cosmological Constant, burning through the first generation galaxies to assemble the heavy elements, constructing the second order galaxies, and building Arda, it only took about 13.4 billion years. Which isn't so long, really.
A whole lotta work to build one planet, though. Sheesh. Those so-called "Children of Ilúvatar" had better be grateful.
There was some controversy about the design of the planet, initially. Melkor and I came up with some really crazy ideas, like making the planet in the shape of a ship (whatever a "ship" is). But we realized that, what with gravitation and everything, that the most logical design was a flat disc. Sure, you can't really do anything useful with the bottom side, but the top works as a nice stable platform for all the mountains and trees and shit.
The biggest flaw is that all the water runs off the edges. Ulmo wanted to make the world bowl-shaped, but he got voted down -- that egotistical prick Manwë didn't want anything blocking the view of his precious skies. I wanted to piss them both off, so I suggested a hollow sphere with the sky and water on the outside. LOL, you should have seen their faces.
Anyway, Melkor and I devoted ourselves to building the disk. We wanted to make sure the Fire Spirits, our close allies, had their own realm in Arda. So secretly, without consulting the others, we hollowed out the disk and built a realm of flame and lava inside the planet. Niiiiiice. Nothing they can do about it now.
It's too bad all the beautiful flame is hidden under the earth, though. I'm thinking of poking a nice deep hole, to let the magma out onto the surface. Can you imagine it? A colossal mountain of cooled magma, with plumes of lava and smoke pouring out from the top! Sweeeet!
I might even be able to use its power for some magical experiments I've been thinking about.
My Mood Is: exhausted
Well, it's finally done. It wasn't too bad -- what with assembling the mathematical framework, building the initial singularity, setting off universal expansion, installing inflation and setting the Cosmological Constant, burning through the first generation galaxies to assemble the heavy elements, constructing the second order galaxies, and building Arda, it only took about 13.4 billion years. Which isn't so long, really.
A whole lotta work to build one planet, though. Sheesh. Those so-called "Children of Ilúvatar" had better be grateful.
There was some controversy about the design of the planet, initially. Melkor and I came up with some really crazy ideas, like making the planet in the shape of a ship (whatever a "ship" is). But we realized that, what with gravitation and everything, that the most logical design was a flat disc. Sure, you can't really do anything useful with the bottom side, but the top works as a nice stable platform for all the mountains and trees and shit.
The biggest flaw is that all the water runs off the edges. Ulmo wanted to make the world bowl-shaped, but he got voted down -- that egotistical prick Manwë didn't want anything blocking the view of his precious skies. I wanted to piss them both off, so I suggested a hollow sphere with the sky and water on the outside. LOL, you should have seen their faces.
Anyway, Melkor and I devoted ourselves to building the disk. We wanted to make sure the Fire Spirits, our close allies, had their own realm in Arda. So secretly, without consulting the others, we hollowed out the disk and built a realm of flame and lava inside the planet. Niiiiiice. Nothing they can do about it now.
It's too bad all the beautiful flame is hidden under the earth, though. I'm thinking of poking a nice deep hole, to let the magma out onto the surface. Can you imagine it? A colossal mountain of cooled magma, with plumes of lava and smoke pouring out from the top! Sweeeet!
I might even be able to use its power for some magical experiments I've been thinking about.
posted by Sauron at 5:01 PM
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