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Is the unit ‘one league’ used in LOTR (esp in elvish) the same as in our universe. Just asking as nobody here is questioning the units.

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I remember asking my dad how far a league was when I first read the book, and then repeatedly questioning whether that could be right in the context of the writing.

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Yes. The books are all carefully translated from elvish and would have accounted for unit conversions.

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I thought they were written by Bilbo and Frodo in Westron and later ‘translated’ by Tolkien

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Yea that’s how i remember it

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