One does not simply walk into Mordor

[Laurence Horn]

On Jul 11, 2013, at 4:52 PM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:

> One of the most memorable lines in the Lord of the Rings, this was said by Sean Bean (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r21CMDyPuGo).
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> This has taken off as a meme as can be seen at http://unsanityfiles.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/one-does-not-simply-walk-into-mordor/. It's also a snowclone, using the first half as in "One does not simply make a few piece of bacon."
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> I'm probably behind the ball, but you can even toss your own phrases onto Sean Bean at http://www.quickmeme.com/One-Does-Not-Simply/, along with lots of other images and phrases.
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> Google Maps has evidently also gotten into the act, using that phrase if you try to get directions from the Shire to Mordor (http://www.inquisitr.com/170524/google-maps-warns-one-does-not-simply-walk-into-mordor/), though when I try it, I get directions to Mordor Tattoo.
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And leaving from The Shire in Chehalis, WA (to Mordor Tattoo in Arlington, WA--a tiring walk as well as a dangerous one.

I see the Google Map directions to Shanghai (involving kayaking from Seattle to Shanghai by way of Hawaii) and to Europe (from a pier in Boston Harbor by rowboat, if memory serves) have been pulled--now you can't get there from here.  Of course I could be missing a travel connection.

LH

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