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_V_
Lorien
Nov 12 2008, 1:58am
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Futurama: Bender's Game - Cornwood is mirror image of Middle-earth!
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As many of you know, "Futurama: Bender's Game" is the 3rd Futurama straighta-to-DVD movie / 5th season which returns the show from its unwarranted cancellation in 2003 (high DVD sales and rerun rates on Cartoon Network proved that it was really cancelled for internal politics; fans love it, and as they explain when they return in the 1st dvd movie, "those asinine morons who cancelled us were themselves fired for uncompetence!")
Anyway, the entire movie is a parody of Dungeons and Dragons more than Tolkien, but because Tolkien influenced fantasy so much, there's quite a few LOTR references....which I will not list here.
Though I must say that the best references were that they have a whole scene of Treebeard helping them cross a river (its not just a cameo; animated quite impressively) but wait to see how things end up for the Ent in this one!
and they made "Roberto the Insane Robot" into their analog of Denethor ("Are you calling me crazy?! I'm not crazy! Just because I think there's a hotel inside of my foot doesn't make me crazy! Now march our legions into the ocean, I declare war on the scallops!")
Anyway, the point of the movie is that Bender sees the children playing Dungeons and Dragons, and doesn't understand how they can be "fighting in a fantasy land" when he just sees them sitting around a table. They realize that Bender, being a robot, physically does not posses an Imagination: robots aren't built with them. After much trial and error, they teach Bender to be able to imagine things by playing D&D alot. However, he takes it too far (they base this on those old rumors 30 years ago that D&D would make you go crazy and get lost in fantasy) and loses his mind: Bender becomes utterly lost in his fantasy, and starts thinking that he *actually is* his D&D character: "Titanius Anglesmith, Fancyman of Cornwood!!"
"Cornwood" is the name that Bender made up for the Middle-earth-esque fantasy-land his character is from. However, due to a dark matter reality warp in the middle of the movie (they explain this) they get trapped in an alternate reality based on Bender's imagination; a real live "Cornwood"
Anyway, at one point they show map of "Cornwood" and I was looking at a pic of it here:
and I realized something:
This is a map of Middle-earth, reversed as a mirror image. Well, it's a map of the southern lands: Gondor and Mordor. On the left, you can see Mordor reversed, with Gorgoroth in the north-east (instead of the north-west) and the "Geysers of Gygax" (their version of Mount Doom) a bit south of the actual Mount Doom. On the right hand page, on the top left you can clearly see Rauros falls, Emyn Muil, and the Wetwang marshes (where Entwash meets Anduin). They've even got Cair Andros and the mouths of Anduin, and all of the mountains and rivers of Gondor. They copied the Middle-earth map completely, but then ingeniously reversed it as a mirror image.
"Pleased to meet you, hope you guessed my name, but what's puzzling you, is the nature of my game"
Formerly known on TORN as "Draug the Unspeakably Violent"
(This post was edited by _V_ on Nov 12 2008, 2:01am)
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SirDennisC
Half-elven
Nov 12 2008, 2:14am
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I meant to post a LOTR reference the other night. In American Dad, Jason's (?) goth girlfriend saves him from a jock mob by saying "You shall not pass!" flipping on Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart and then dancing.
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Ainu Laire
Tol Eressea
Nov 12 2008, 4:19am
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My all-time favorite LOTR reference
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Is the great Battle of Boxingham Palace. It's a mix of Helm's Deep and the Battle of Pelennor.
http://www.youtube.com/...&feature=related
I mean they even have the LOTR music in the background. I cannot help but burst into song when I watch this part of the episode.
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NARF since age 8, when I refused to read the Hobbit because the cover looked boring and icky.
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Kelvarhin
Half-elven
Nov 12 2008, 6:48am
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The pic isn't showing for me 
Valinor, O Valinor
Andavë yányë hyarya
Tumna yá nyèna minya fëa
An Valinor, lissë Eldamar
Kelvarhin's Universe~~~~~~~Laerasea's Travelling TORn Journal
One book to rule them all
One book to find them
One book to bring them all
And in TORn bind them
In the land of TORnadoes...where the brilliant play
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grammaboodawg
Immortal
Nov 12 2008, 5:26pm
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omg! I've never seen this before!
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It's priceless!!!!! Bwahahaha! The music, the ladders, the Aragorn-esque onslaught! PERFECT!
Thanks so much!
"Barney Snow was here." ~Hug like a hobbit!~ "In my heaven..."
I really need these new films to take me back to, and not re-introduce me to, that magical world.
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tennie75
Lorien
Nov 13 2008, 1:23pm
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*snort *
must find dvd thanks for sharing
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Aunt Dora Baggins
Immortal
Nov 13 2008, 4:51pm
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Red X of Doom. And when I do a google search, I come up with a real town named Cornwood
One thing I discovered back when we were first starting the Map project was that Colorado is kind of a mirror image of Middle Earth, if you color all the land below 4500 feet blue. I reversed the image to make it more obvious here (I don't really think the Four Corners area is Mordor, though it is definitely a desert):
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"For DORA BAGGINS in memory of a LONG correspondence, with love from Bilbo; on a large wastebasket. Dora was Drogo's sister, and the eldest surviving female relative of Bilbo and Frodo; she was ninety-nine, and had written reams of good advice for more than half a century."
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"A Chance Meeting at Rivendell" and other stories
leleni at hotmail dot com
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Ainu Laire
Tol Eressea
Nov 13 2008, 11:33pm
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I was the one who helped translate those darn lyrics; I will never forget that music in my life ;)
The sound-effects were definitely priceless!
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NARF since age 8, when I refused to read the Hobbit because the cover looked boring and icky.
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SirDennisC
Half-elven
Nov 14 2008, 5:21pm
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I wasn't entirely sure as I don't usually watch the show. Did you see this episode?
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