

Now it was a time of festival, as Melkor knew well. A quick scan of The Silmarillion led to this passage: When I first looked at this question, my immediate thought was that he didn’t try to explain the seasons – but I was wrong. 3319? Did seasons occur during the Spring of Arda? If not, when did Arda first begin to experience them? Is it ever winter in Valinor? Q: Did Tolkien Explain Seasons before the Changing of the World?ĪNSWER: A reader sent in the following interesting question in July 2020:ĭid Tolkien explain how seasons (fall, winter, etc.) happened in Arda before the Changing of the World in S.A. Tolkien have to say about seasons in pre-Change Arda? The world of the early Silmarillion did not comply with the laws of physics – such are the whims of myth and fantasy.
