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Greenwood Hobbit
Valinor
May 7 2023, 8:06am
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Beware the all-seeing butterfly!
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Just read this on the BBC news website. Seems a bit unfair on the butterflies!
Scientists have named a new group of butterflies after the villain Sauron from the Lord of the Rings novels.
Experts hit on the name Saurona because the black rings on the insect's orange wings reminded them of the all-seeing eye described in JRR Tolkien's books.
The Natural History Museum in London hopes the unusual title will draw attention to the species and help generate more research.
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Lissuin
Valinor
May 7 2023, 9:36am
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Saurona triangular and Saurona aurigera
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https://www.bbc.com/...environment-65515790
Agreed! Not really fair, is it?
...in a last desperate race there flew, faster than the winds, the Saurona triangular and the Saurona aurigera, and with a storm of wings they hurtled southwards to Mount Doom.
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Greenwood Hobbit
Valinor
May 7 2023, 2:53pm
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Haha! Maybe the butterfly thread
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will supercede the pants thread! On the other hand, anywhere near Mount Doom a storm of wings would pretty soon end in an all-too-brief 'Fffzzztt!'
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DwellerInDale
Rohan
May 8 2023, 3:11am
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Oddly enough, something like this did happen 34 million years ago. Most of the world's known butterfly fossils come from Florissant, Colorado; a volcano called the Guffey volcano erupted, burying thousands of insects and others in volcanic ash.
Don't mess with my favorite female elf.
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Annael
Elvenhome
May 8 2023, 5:13pm
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are the wings real, or metaphorical?
I am a dreamer of words, of written words.
-- Gaston Bachelard
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NARF and member of Deplorable Cultus since 1967
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Ethel Duath
Half-elven
May 9 2023, 1:09am
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big smile for the day.
Thank you!
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NottaSackville
Valinor
May 9 2023, 12:33pm
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Happiness: money matters, but less than we think and not in the way that we think. Family is important and so are friends, while envy is toxic -- and so is excessive thinking. Beaches are optional. Trust is not. Neither is gratitude. - The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner as summarized by Lily Fairbairn. And a bit of the Hobbit reading thrown in never hurts. - NottaSackville
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dernwyn
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May 9 2023, 4:34pm
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But the Eyes are metaphorical.
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"I desired dragons with a profound desire"
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Silvered-glass
Rohan
May 9 2023, 8:03pm
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Another related fun fact:
The huge starfish Midgardia xandaros appears to be named after the Middle-earth. You see, it can be argued that the Watcher in the Water was actually a giant starfish in the book... It makes more sense if you look at the variety of different starfish that exist.
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DwellerInDale
Rohan
May 10 2023, 12:07am
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In her 1972 paper describing the new species Midgardia xandraros, Maureen Downey wrote "from the Midgard (middle earth) serpent, of Norse mythology, which lies at the bottom of the sea and encircles the earth". Not sure if she was aware of Tolkien's works or simply took the name from Norse mythology.
I knew those taxonomy classes would come in handy one day...
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Silvered-glass
Rohan
May 10 2023, 7:47pm
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He may or may not have been, but it's possible that he didn't connect the Watcher with starfish. The scene goes by so quickly in the book.
(A possible candidate for character discussion: The Watcher in the Water.)
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