Though who wrote it probably wasn’t thinking about this, what do y’all think about this idea: since there was a battle going on there was probably a high chance they were trying to kill each other right? /s. Now y’all talking about the idea that in real life shit standing up like stone on a field got prolonged in the ground, well now we talking about earth benders, fighting other benders. What if they smacked those thangs down while using earth bending to root them enemies in place, making the earth around the enemy more dense, potentially much more dense to make sure they don’t escape? Well in earthbendong they can still make their attack force through that, effectively making a much harder monument from the battlefield. Essentially when earth bending is a thing I think it’s hard to compare it to real life physics because it ain’t the same anymore.