Middle Earth Aesthetics

sometimes i think about how tolkien said golf exists in middle earth and then just never mentioned it again ever

one of my favorite lotr facts is that gondorians speak sindarin as a first language and yet when faramir was talking to frodo and sam about cirith ungol he was like “we don’t know what’s in there.” like faramir. cirith ungol is sindarin for “pass of the spider.” do the math

Ok but if you knew there was a place called Spider Pass near you but you’d never been there I doubt you’d imagine literal spiders. You’d think it was because it was sort of squiggly and spidery. Or, you know, it’s pretty fucking reasonable to assume that Sauron would name the pass after the evil spider Ungoliant because basically why the fuck not, the whole land of Mordor is full of stuff like “Mount Doom” and the “Dark Tower” and the “Black Gate” and I think there’s “Fields of Sorrow” or something so really is “Spider Pass” much out of the ordinary here