I knew it. Florida is (mostly) in Mordor! That makes so much sense!
Flordor
They were smart to avoid Atlanta, the traffic there is horrible.
Also, the whole mines of Moria part makes sense, being Kentucky and all.
They were smart to avoid Atlanta, the traffic there is horrible.
Ya but they had to go through Chattanooga, which is way more infuriating.
They went to Mordor-lago?
Flori-dor?
I didn't notice the outline of North America until reading this. I thought it was just weird splotches.
Mordor being in Florida checks out.
Yup. Just outside of Jacksonville. I knew it.
They’re taking the hobbits to Jackson-gard!
After reading the books, I felt like the movies were rushed (yes, even the extended editions). You just didn't get a sense for how long and arduous their journey was. It took Sam and Frodo a month just to get to Rivendell alone, and you truly felt like you were out hiking and camping with the hobbits for all that time.
In the movies, they just bump into friends and allies, spend a night at Bree (plus a couple nights out camping in the wild), run from the Nazgul, then they're magically there at Rivendell. Doesn't seem like it took more than a few days tops.
The whole journey to Mordor and back took a whole year. Imagine spending a whole year walking and camping across America and you might get a sense for how long it took them.
Honestly, The Lord of the Rings should've been a miniseries to properly flesh out the long journey. Even the extended editions cut lots of story and rushed the pacing to keep the story moving forward.
One way Tolkien adds tension and time is to end with a cliffhanger for Sam and Frodo in book 4 (part 2 of Two Towers) you then start following Merry and Pippin in book 5 (part 1 of Return Of The King) and have to read all of that before returning to Frodo and Sam in book 6.
Reference: A bit about the 6 books https://screenrant.com/lord-of-the-rings-tolkien-6-books-why/
Yes! The Two Towers novel ended with Frodo supposedly dead from Shelob, and Sam picking up the ring to finish the journey. It was almost halfway into Return of the King that we find out Frodo is still alive and Sam needs to rescue him!
That was such a great plot twist. I was kind of sad they didn't follow that chain of events in the movies. The whole Shelob thing was resolved really quickly, about halfway into Return of the King.
That or just some other more effective narrative exposition to give the viewer a better sense of time.
Narration is boring. Montages have the potential to overstay their welcome. Exposition in dialogue is dumb. There's already so much going on in the movies that adding more set pieces would actually generate the opposite effect. Busy movies feel like they rush and a lot happens in a short span of time (think what if tom bombadil). The only way was to actually cut more stuff to focus even more narrowly on fewer plot points, to gain time where to insert set pieces that illustrated the time passing, with slower pace. When a movie has very few things going on in a long time span, it feels like it's illustrating a very long span of time. This is a balancing act that all screenwriters and directors have to face. For example, look at interstellar vs. Castaway, which one objectively is about a longer period time, which one actually leaves you feeling like the characters experienced a lot of time?
Honestly, The Lord of the Rings should've been a miniseries to properly flesh out the long journey
Depending on how well the Harry Potter show goes, I won't be surprised at all if we see this eventually
The Hobbit cartoon does a great job of that with some montage scenes that go on for a while.
Can't help but wanna see this overlaid on a mall map: these hobbits had to get to JC Penny from the Books-A-Million. A harrowing journey of many months.
When you think about it, they basically walked twice as far as that since they’re so small.
they walked 500 miles and 500 more
They had to go all the way to Florida 😔
Worse, Jacksonville.
Are you telling me california is the undying lands?
And the Shire is in Manhattan, Kansas.
This is dumb they def coulda gotten a flight
Credit to https://www.oglaf.com/ornithology/
Still better than staying in Ohio.
ok, but then... how come at the end of the first movie can they see Mt doom in the distance. does sight work differently in this age?
i cant see the smokies from Florida.
//UNWATCHABLE
/s
As an answer to your not-a-question, I think it would imply that Arda is an absolutely massive planet, such that your sight line would be further.
I wonder if you could calculate that. I thought that on a level area, the horizon is about 6 miles out (or is it 12?) based on that, could you calculate the size of the world based on the height of mount doom and the distance it would be?
I like how they noped out of Florida and back into Georgia.
I like how the Dead Marshes line up pretty much perfectly with the Okefenokee Swamp.
Oh damn. I did that in 3rd grade over summer vacation! Cool.
I had a minivan tho
I like the idea of the full fellowship just chilling in a minivan playing road trip games.
Gandalf road raging in the left lane doin 5 under screaming "YOU SHALL NOT PASS"
Legolas calls padiddle before anyone else has a chance
The hobbits all fell into that little crack between the seat and the seatbelt latch thing, but they were ok because of the crumbs of lamb ass bread (that's what I call it cause it's shite) that they found.
And everybody screamed and scared the shit out of Gimli, who had fallen asleep and instantly charged into battle with the headrest of the front seat when startled awake. Then he got all embarrassed.
The fellowship really cheaped out on travel, huh?
Pfft, that’s like 2 days’ drive, tops.
New Zealand's a bit small for that isn't it?
Map distortion or something.
$On the eagles$
Sam's club: we're not in Kansas anymore
The Philadelphia Eagles are coming!
Says something that frodo and Sam travel to the bowels of mordor, but they draw the line at Mississippi
if they really had to go to Florida they would've jumped in after tossing the ring
Lewis and Clark went further
