They could only advise or otherwise get tangentially involved. It's also worth noting that the Giant Eagles, much like the Wizards of Middle Earth, were forbidden in directly helping mortals overcoming problems they could solve themselves. The point of sending Hobbits on foot was that they had showed resilience to the Ring's corrupting influence, but also that they would be unsuspected, as Hobbits were considered rather unimportant folk. With Sauron's combined forces being so strong by the time the Ring was discovered, it meant a full-on attack would be highly unlikely to succeed, and so only a covert mission would do. In terms of military strategy, it would be more of a "Hail Mary" than a solid plan, with a high risk of catastrophic failure. Not to mention the fact that they would have been extremely vulnerable in such a position, and likely to be brought down, and if that happened over Mordor, it would have guaranteed that Sauron got his ring back. Sauron also had the Nazgûl air force after all, and maybe others too :) Even a normal Elf like Legolas could spot small flying birds at some distance, the Eye of Sauron would be looking to keep his borders safe, from above and below. For spoiler-protection reasons we couldn’t explain to him that Orcs are super-industrious creatures known to be particularly skilled at extensive digging projects.Giant Eagles with Wizards on their back would have been seen for miles. The professor did question our vaguely described scenario, wondering how anybody could dig a tunnel to a magma chamber when they tend to be at least two kilometers below the Earth’s surface. “We see that happening in Hawaii all the time where lava flows into the ocean, and some of the lava can get blown around if the water gets trapped under it.” “If that water is in a confined area, like a bottleneck, there’s going to be a steam eruption - we call it a phreatomagmatic eruption,” he adds. That said, the resulting blowup is more likely to be a steam-venting explosion than a massive magma super-vomit that lasts for centuries in Middle-earth. That stuff piles up near a central vent and that’s what makes big volcanos.” The magma rises to the surfaces, the water makes bubbles that can turn to steam and the steam and water expand so rapidly that they basically blow the magma apart. “Violent volcanic eruptions occur in large part because water is involved,” Karson says. If a river poured into a land-based volcano like Mount Doom, mixed with the magma and there wasn’t a way for the resulting steam to exit (like, say, if the incoming water was blocking the hole the Orcs had dug), there could indeed be an explosion. The basic idea is this: Water often plays a crucial role in causing volcanic eruptions - particularly when the volcano in question is on the sea floor. We opted for a short version, which still ended up being a tad long. “How long of an answer do you want?” Karson asked. We’re hoping it will take people by surprise.”īut could the diverted water really have caused Mount Doom to explode just like in the episode? Jeffrey Karson, professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Syracuse University, who specializes in volcanic activity and has written about the role of water in eruptions, overviewed the basics of the concept. It all builds toward this geologically realistic way of igniting the mountain, which now blacks out the sky for a very practical reason - Adar, our villain, sees the Orcs as his people and they deserve a home where the sun doesn’t torment them. Then you find out about the tunnels being dug and sulfur is going up into the air. And then what could happen that could transform it? We talked about the poisoning of the land - which starts in the first episode with the cow. So in the writers room, we asked: What if Mordor was beautiful? All bucolic like Switzerland. It’s a thing that comes up again and again throughout the show. “We wanted that to be central and core all the time. “A huge theme in Tolkien is the environmentalism and the way machines and industrializations destroys the land,” McKay says. Payne and Patrick McKay say the twist was given considerable thought in the writers room, which sought to tie the reveal into one of author J.R.R. In a show that could have easily have fallen back on using magic to accomplish a major terraforming twist like this one (see: every episode of The Witcher), the Mount Doom reveal was a rather clever way of using an essential element from the natural world. Fantasy Hits 'Dragon,' 'Andor,' 'Last of Us' Get Top Emmy Noms (But 'Rings of Power' Snubbed)
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