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It's Official, Russia is Mordor

Djinn

and Tonic
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First this happened

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ooks-like-Mount-Morder-Lord-Of-The-Rings.html
With its fiery river spewing out across a dark, volcanic wasteland, this picture could be straight from the film series The Lord of the Rings.

But rather than a scene depicting the evil land of Mordor, this incredible picture has captured a volcanic eruption so powerful it spewed a lava fountain a kilometre high.

Bearing an uncanny resemblance to the mythical land imagined from the books by J.R.R. Tolkien, this volcano has been erupting in Kamchatka, far eastern Russia.

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Known as the 'Land of Volcanoes' Kamchatka - which is more than 5,000 miles from Moscow - is home to 29 active craters.

Last month one of the most active - Klyuchevskoy - was pictured by photographer Marc Szeglat.

Mr Szeglat spent 12 days in the fiery region capturing the stunning contrast between the volcanic fury and ice of the first snows of winter.

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Now this happened

http://rt.com/news/212527-eye-sauron-moscow-scyscraper/
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Tolkien fans rejoice! The ‘Eye of Sauron’ now is not just fiction – it will light up the skyline of Moscow-City to ominously watch down on the Russian capital as the latest “Hobbit” movie premiers in Russia on Thursday night.

Fans of the British fiction novelist J. R. R. Tolkien will re-create the Eye of the Dark Lord Sauron from the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy on Wednesday night, according to The Hollywood Reporter Russia.

The creators from a Russian art-group ‘Svechenie’ dreamed up this wild installation as a tribute to the great saga and its film adaptation.

They said that the installation of a real life Eye of the Dark Lord of Mordor will “let millions of fans visit Middle-earth” – the fictional world where the adventures of the trilogy take place.
The light installation of the perilous Eye engulfed in flames will be set up on the roof of the “IQ-quarter” complex at the Gals-development company in Moscow International Business Center "Moscow-City".

In Tolkien’s saga the lidless Eye was the symbol of power and fear though which the Dark Lord Sauron was able to exert his will over Middle-earth. It was stationed atop the Barad-dûr tower – the fortress from which Sauron watched over the world. The All Seeing Eye is an allusion to mass surveillance and control.

The epic fantasy adventure films based on Tolkien’s novel were directed by Peter Jackson. The first part of the trilogy - The Fellowship of the Ring - was released in 2001. Following the global success Jackson filmed Tolkien’s prequel novel “The Hobbit. Or There and Back Again.” The movie series features three parts, the last of which was released in December.
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Putin could be the new lord of the Nine.

And now all we need to do is make some stories about how they had to wrest the ring from it's previous bearer Rasputin the rival of Lenin the Red Wizard until it came to pass into the hands of Stalin the Master of Minas Petersberg, but was then betrayed by the ring and left to die by the hand of the new Steward of the Red City Minas Moscow Khrushchev who later went into the East with Lenin to teach magics to the Easterlings and was never heard from again. When the master of the East Gorbachhev was felled by a great dragon and his kingdom left in ruin, all the gold of the kingdom stolen and the people left to rebuild their lives in amidst the Desolation of Reagan.

Now the mad Far Harad King Edrogan beckons at the gates with annoying and ridiculous claims of holdings and tales of past glory, meanwhile the uprisings of the Dunkrainelings in the Ukraiddermark leaves the lands in the west weak and open for conquest. The Northmen of Canada gnaw at their ice shelf oil claims, while the Black Numeroth'Americanean king Ar-Obama amasses a mighty fleet of sanctions and condemnations. Fortunately the foul Grima WormNews Network was sent to spread rumors and lies, further weakening the West's grip on their holdings.
 
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All I can picture is an intense battle between Russia and New Zealand for the claim to Middle Earth. Have you seen New Zealand? They have countless roads named after characters, LOTR planes, LOTR everything. Look it up. They're the best kind of maniacs.

That aside, Djinn sir, those are excellent points. You've got me convinced.
 

Akuhime-sama

What's Life Without Adult Humor?
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Pennsylvania
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Hasn't Russia always been Mordor?
No, But the leader(s) now are pretty bad. Like Batman said, Especially if you are gay.
I'm sorry, but whoever's in charge over there deserves to be -well, 'dealt with' -I'll leave it at that.
I'm very angry with global inequality- and Russia's leader(s) is/are one of the many I am outraged by.
 

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