Maybe it all happened on that day when the Sun doesn't rise. Or, perhaps it happens later in the Fourth Age. If the upheaval was massive enough, it would also explain why we've never found any archaeological remains from Gondor and Arnor...
No, it has to happen sometime between Faramir's childhood (when he can see Sirius on a warm summer evening), and the first chapters of FotR (when Frodo and Co. see Taurus rising late in the evening on an autumn night, just as it does today). That's what - a 30 year time-span, at most? So it's odd that no one mentions this great cataclysm. Maybe they're still too traumatized by the memories? (After all, the last one sank Numenor; who knows what was destroyed in this one?)
And then, we'll need yet ANOTHER cosmic upheaval to explain why precession of the equinoxes hasn't changed the rising time of Taurus between Frodo's day and our own, despite only 20,000 years or so separating our Age from the Third Age. THAT must be the cataclysm that destroys the remains of Gondor and Arnor.
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No, it has to happen sometime between Faramir's childhood (when he can see Sirius on a warm summer evening), and the first chapters of FotR (when Frodo and Co. see Taurus rising late in the evening on an autumn night, just as it does today). That's what - a 30 year time-span, at most? So it's odd that no one mentions this great cataclysm. Maybe they're still too traumatized by the memories? (After all, the last one sank Numenor; who knows what was destroyed in this one?)
And then, we'll need yet ANOTHER cosmic upheaval to explain why precession of the equinoxes hasn't changed the rising time of Taurus between Frodo's day and our own, despite only 20,000 years or so separating our Age from the Third Age. THAT must be the cataclysm that destroys the remains of Gondor and Arnor.
This is fun! Anyone out there up for myth-making?