#WALK into mordor

[its-the-dollar-store]

Okay who did this

[boromirofgondorr]

One Does Not Simply Walk Into Mordor👌

[emberdember]

[naturedust]

the next level of did you know viggo mortensen broke his toe when he kicked the helmet and is actually also screaming in pain there: did you know sean bean taped the script to his knee because they only gave him the script that morning and you can see him looking down when he says one does not simply walk into mordor

[doberbutts]

Also it's still very funny to me when I say "I like Rings of Power" and someone sees it and says I'm not a true fan of Tolkien's works and must not know anything about his writing and then I post a picture of my bookshelf. Never gets old.

[runawaymarbles]

I love when academics are clearly having fun. I also like when they dedicate an entire chapter to roasting the opinions of the guy whose lecture series I just listened to.

[ingridverse]

[quixoticanarchy]

so @nereb-and-dungalef and i were trying to make the geomorphology of Mordor make sense, as one does - or rather, as one fails to do, since orogenic processes do not tend to favor Rectangular Box of Mountains. but even if you chalk Mordor's shape up to Ainur activity, you'd think that Sauron would have taken pains to make his mountains form a better box, if a box was what he wanted. and yet it's not a perfect quadrilateral. it hasn't even got proper right angles.

therefore, our solution: Sauron did have a perfect set of geometrically balanced mountain-walls surrounding a volcanic hotspot - once. however... geological processes can only be slowed so much by one guy. the earth still changes. the crust still deforms. mountains are uplifted and erosion carves them down. hotspots move. you can't freeze geology any more than you can embalm the world at large. you can't prevent change. (not a lesson Sauron is eager to learn.) so Mordor is neither the product of natural processes nor intentional design - it's the interface of conflict between both.

[jerswayman]

how much fun was last night, the atmosphere, playoff hockey? "honestly, i haven't played in many rinks in playoffs in this league, but, like, just looking around, i don't think there's a better place to play hockey than boston, and it was amazing; the atmosphere and everything was really great last night." – JAKUB LAUKO ON PLAYOFF HOCKEY AT BOSTON

[alasforher]

[oasisofgalaxies]

Watching Lord of the Rings, this movie is so good but also really silly at times

[canirove]

Girona Vs. FC Barcelona | 04.05.2024

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[setnet]

thinking about... walking back from mordor. this is a personal shorthand for a lot of things, but it mainly relates to the question of what comes after. so the dark lord is defeated, so the war is won, what now?

In a literal sense, sam and frodo don't walk back from mordor. They're rescued and airlifted to safety and healing. they don't have to do the whole ugly slog across the polluted lands in reverse. the eagles are deux ex machina in that sense, but it doesn't feel unearned after frodo and sam have gone to the brink of their own destruction in destroying the ring.

but in a more psychological sense, frodo and sam spend the rest of their lives walking back from mordor, where mordor is the shadow of the ring and the wounds they experienced from their journey and from carrying it.

the scouring of the shire is about walking back from mordor, when the shadow of mordor comes to your door. it's about undoing the pointless and cruel rules imposed by sharkey-saruman and frodo keeping the hobbits from killing surrendered enemies.

I'm fascinated by the after. maybe it comes of reading history, I don't know. few of the sff books I read seem to be similarly fascinated. authors don't seem to be so keen on the hard slog of rebuilding as they are on the revolution.

[blastedking]

Somewhere in the background a Hermit is coughing awkwardly. xD

[thorin]

lowkey loving the beorn/tauriel/bard/bilbo friendship silver_pup wrote in a shot in the dark omg. i never thought of those 4 interacting!!

[mayomkun]

Went to see LotR film + orchestra today!!!!!!!!! 🧙🎻