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TL;DR Mairon=210-230, Melkor=280 Made a chart for the heights of all the races in my HC and few random characters(ft on the left is not very accurate).

Basically in my HC everyone is smaller than what most people might think. I personally can't imagine humanoid shapes to be any taller than 240cm/8ft, maybe 300cm/10ft if I stretch my mental limit.

But I always wanted to clear out who's how tall blah blah from canon a bit so one sunny day I went through a bunch of canon information I could find online about heights in ME. Found out that there are these MiddleEarth unit called "ranga/r".

1 ranga: a stride, hobbits are 1 ranga(half of men) 2 rangar: average Numenorean male height, also Galadriel 2.5 rangar: Elendil

Although in canon 1 ranga = 38inch | 3'2" | 96.5cm, I took a bit of liberty in this and altered 1 ranga to be around 35.4-36.4inch | 90-92.5cm as I tend to like everyone(including Melkor) to be shorter than 10' | 3m.

Also, here's the link to my thoughts from 2018, written in 2023. Everyone is even more shorter than the above chart but it's only really the ainur and elves that are nerfed down. Thingol and Elendil are too tall

Some random relationship chart for my “current” main HC.  Yes it’s Sauron-centered, that’s my blog name.

Hroa is for mortals and elves only. Maiar and valar have fana. Just saying.

I was never too sure about the hröa and fana thing so thank you for making it clearer for me :D  Did some further investigation on the subject and came to this:

Ainur spirit - ëala (plural - ëalar) (seems rarely used) Ainur body - fana (plural - fanar?) Others spirit - fëa (plural - fëar) Others body - hröa (plural - hröar)

A few question came to me when I remembered how the fana could be discarded at will any time without the maiar losing overall power (referred to being like a clothing).  This seemed a tad weird to me since there were cases where Balrogs “died” and Sauron was threatened by Luthien of being stripped of his body.  I couldn’t really tell the difference between losing a “fana” at will and them being forced out.

Also wasn’t too sure of the exact definition of a fana and so I came up with a few theories:

a.) Fana is a type of hröa and is technically the same thing, simply an ainur’s hröa is referred to as a fana.  An ainur in a fana/hröa could strip at will but also could be permanently damaged when some one is intending to break their fana/hröa.

b.) Fana and hröa are two different words for a body and an ainur’s body is always referred to as a fana.  A fana could be stripped at will but also could be permanently damaged when some one is intending to break their fana.

c.) An ainur can take on both the fana or a hröa at will, hröa being the more physical form.  Both the Balrog and Sauron had a hröa in the above situation and was physically in a vulnerable state than in a fana.  Possible reason for possessing a hröa even with the demerit of being killed was that it was the only way to interact properly with Arda, making the fana are more spiritual state.  The difference between an ainur in an ëala|fëa form and a fana form was that the ëala|fëa form wasn’t visible to the children but the fana was.  The monstrous and/or physically impossible forms of ainur are them in their fana.

News is, my weekly comics are going on semi-hiatus now.  It’s semi because I’d still post comics, it just won’t be weekly anymore.  I want to first answer all the questions I’ve received since……a few months and also try out on longer comics/art since I can’t do them in a weekly pace. 

example: i.) Angmar/Sauron ii.) Melkor/Mairon iii.) Celebrimbor/Annatar

I draw anything!  Well anything related to Sauron since this is a Sauron-Centric blog.  And no it can be from any one.  I just tend to draw from certain peoples more because their HCs match mine more than others.

Only problem would be my message box is still filled up so requests wont be fulfilled for possibly a month or so.  And yeah I do randomly reply to newer ones in one day sometimes but that’s just me being random.

Eh, What's your thoughts on the matter of magic among mortals in Arda? Tolkien wrote a number of passages detailing that men can't do "magic" at all on their own (studying helps not) - only using special artifacts (borrowing else's power) or thru Melkor power spread in matter of Arda which corrupts you when you come into contact with it, espesially when you try using it. But no more then small things... There are cases of weird "magic like" things done by rare men but they are different i guess.             

My definition of magic in my HC is a form of channeling powers that are still left in the lands from the forming of Arda.  It gradually decreases and by the Fourth~Fifth age there are basically none.  Since it is just channeling available powers to what the user wants, it’s like talking about converting speed energy into force in our real world physics.  That’s why the elves don’t consider it “magic“ because it is like their “science“.  Only difference to real world science is that it’s more “magical(something beyond our understanding of how stuff works)” and it disappears out side of Arda every time it is used so the overall magic in Arda disappears with time.

All Ainur can use these to their will but mainly only the powers of their on realm.  For example, Mairon can’t control water much and Ulmo can’t control Lava much.  Since the Ainur them selves are all made of the essence that made the world, they could use magic in the Fourth-Fifth age onward but it would drain them.

In the case of the elves, some of them could use these “magic“.  These would mostly be elves from the Year of the Trees and/or the one’s that are from the line of Melian.

Men/Hobbits/Dwarves/Ents in general can’t use magic.  I HC that a few from the line of Elros could use magic, which I guess goes against canon but I just like the idea.  Most from the line won’t even notice that they could wield it but since Angmar(HC that he was a son of Tar-Ciryatan) was found by Sauron and learned to use some.  Most magic he learned were not practical and mainly only studied for the knowledge.

So here’s just a random list of both SFW and NSFW Nazgul fics I’ve found over the internet.  We need more fan works of them peopleeee. (I do tend to like ones that uses MERP Nazgul)

(I’ll remove any of them ASAP if you’re an author to any of these and don’t want it listed like this.)

Updated 11 May 2018: added 3more fics