Sunday, December 29, 2013

"Mt. Doom" isn't lazy!

I have discovered a blog after mine own heart.  Though I must disagree with the author in the humor behind the MEME that faults Tolkien for choosing a "lame" "plain" name for the volcano in Mordor (otherwise known as Orodruin), the short essay's thesis is pleasing to my inner Tolkien nerd: "‘Mount Doom’ was not chosen to be vaguely menacing, like some comic book villain calling himself ‘Dr. Doom!' Tolkien uses the word ‘doom’ in a very particular (and very old) sense, which has huge symbolic significance for the story as a whole."

http://observationdeck.io9.com/what-does-tolkien-mean-by-the-word-doom-1166561920

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