What Middle Earth would look like from space.

[JonnyBGoode]

This would be cool to have in Orbiter.

What Middle Earth would look like from space.

Orbital bombardment of Mordor commencing in 3... 2... 1...

 

[Koloss]

That's awesome!

Now let's calculate our exact reentry path and get that Ring into Mount Doom :lol:

 

[Dantassii]

I wonder if anyone can do a Smaug add-on......

 

[Scav]

I am not going to do the physics calculation of an object the size and weight of a ring undergoing an overly steep re-entry trajectory / plunge into an Earthlike atmosphere . . . I don't have the brainpower . . . nor do I particularly think the exercise will bear any fruit since the object is canonically supposed to be able to friggin' survive 10,000+C temperatures (except explicitly submerged in the lava of a particular volcano) . . .

*deep breath* There. I'm better.

 

[Face]

Orbital bombardment of Mordor commencing in 3... 2... 1...

...although it might be the only way to be sure :rofl:.

 

[MattBaker]

You know, they had to lit signal fires by hand. I doubt they have a Hobbit with a torch standing on the pad to launch that nuclear missile to Mordor.:lol:

 

[Koloss]

 

[Hielor]

Which then raises the question...why couldn't they have just used those eagles to drop the thing into Mount Doom?

 

[MattBaker]

Which then raises the question...why couldn't they have just used those eagles to drop the thing into Mount Doom?

That question is like Godwin's law for Lord of the Rings, whatever you do some punk will bring it up...

 

[n122vu]

Which then raises the question...why couldn't they have just used those eagles to drop the thing into Mount Doom?

Indeed.

 

[Mandella]

Which then raises the question...why couldn't they have just used those eagles to drop the thing into Mount Doom?

Same reason flying the Ring in with a Deltaglider wouldn't work -- you are assuming Sauron had no air defense, when both the books and movie showed he did.

Stealth. It was all about stealth. If Sauron had the slightest inkling what the real plan was it wouldn't have worked, eagles or rockets.


Annnd consider me trolled.

 

[Ghostrider]

We need a Vingilot add-on... And a Grey Havens spaceport.

 

[kamaz]

Orbital bombardment of Mordor commencing in 3... 2... 1...

This, then, was the yeast on which Barad-dúr rose six centuries ago, that amazing city of alchemists and poets, mechanics and astronomers, philosophers and physicians, the heart of the only civilization in Middle Earth to bet on rational knowledge and bravely pitch its barely adolescent technology against ancient magic. The shining tower of the Barad-dúr citadel rose over the plains of Mordor almost as high as Orodruin like a monument to Man – free Man who had politely but firmly declined the guardianship of the Dwellers on High and started living by his own reason. It was a challenge to the bone-headed aggressive West, which was still picking lice in its log ‘castles’ to the monotonous chanting of scalds extolling the wonders of never-existing Númenor. It was a challenge to the East, buckling under the load of its own wisdom, where Yin and Yang had long ago consumed each other, producing only the refined static beauty of the Garden of Thirteen Stones. It was also a challenge to certain others, for the wry intellectuals of the Mordor Academy, unbeknownst to them, had come right up to the line beyond which the growth of their power promised to become both irreversible and uncontrollable.

-- Kirill Yeskov, The last ringbearer

 

[MattBaker]

Mountains [on Titan] are named after mountains from the fictional Middle-Earth created by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Wait, what?
So you do need to reenter with a DG to Mount Doom, just not through the atmosphere you'd assume.

Note: If ever on Titan, dress dark and stab a small guy on Amon Sûl. And then stay away from women.

 

[AlfalfaQc]

Someone should do a Game of Thrones map like this one.