Mount Doom erupts. No sign of Frodo or Sam

Mountain featured in ?Lord of the Rings? erupts

from news wire

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - New Zealand?s Mount Ruapehu erupted, spewing out ash and rock that injured one climber and forced around 50 people to be evacuated off the mountain, local media reported on Wednesday. The 10-minute eruption started at about 8.20 p.m. on Tuesday and sent a cloud of ash and dust to a height of 15,000 feet, Geological and Nuclear Sciences said.

 

Thats because Sam and Frodo live in Middle Earth.

 

Don't worry. They can clear everyone away from the area using Eagles.

Eagles are very reliable.

 

Ten minute eruption?

That's better than a 45 minute ending.

 

The ending was fine. Exactly what the story needed.

 

No sign of Frodo or Sam

of course not. they are in the shire.

in a bed.

playing with their two towers.

 

WE TALKING LORD OF THE RINGS OR A PETER NORTH MOVIE???

 

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Shun the non-believer!!!!

 

At first glance I thought this said "Moon erupts". That would be quite a sight.

 

Eagles, Tolkein's Deus Ex Machina. Gotta love it.

 

Dammit. My happy ending joke is now redundant.

 

i can't imagine being on a hike and seeing the top of the mountain I'm climbing up to explode.
I believe i will make that my new phobia

 

padluv, my natural disasters textbook last year had a story about a group of volcanologists who went on a day hike up a supposedly dormant volcano in south america. it described in vivid detail about how when they reached the summit, the volcano erupted, sending boulders and rocks in the air, smashing and killing several of the team members, and several others died from lava flow and deadly gases. it got so hot that of of the two survivors camera bag had actually melted into his skin. it was pretty gruesome.

but hey, the chances that would happen to you are actually extremely remote. for the most part volcanoes are safe.

 

ohmygosh--you suck LOL

Thanks ever so much for the true story and colorful detail.

 

At least you could get a cool book deal out of it.

 

IF you lived, with a camera bag perma attached to your skin

 

Boo, I've been there. Glad to hear no one was killed, though.

 

Mount Doom was Ngauruhoe, a nearby but completely different mountain to Ruapehu.

This is the hut the tramper was trapped in;

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Extremely lucky he and his companion weren't buried alive.

More photos at 'photo gallery' link.

 

This ending would have rocked.

 

In Peter Jackson's film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, Mount Doom was represented by Mount Ngauruhoe and Mount Ruapehu, both active volcanoes in New Zealand. In long shots the mountain is either a large model or a CGI effect, or a combination. It was not permitted to film the summit of Ngauruhoe because it is sacred to Maori of the region. However, some scenes on the slopes of Mount Doom were filmed on the slopes of another nearby volcano, Mount Ruapehu.

from wikipedia

 

*stares in awe at explosion in slow motion*

 

The capital of New Zealand is also the capital of Middle-earth.

 

Did fiery chunks of rock knock any Nazgul out of the air?