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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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May 16, 2014 - 10:33am PT
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I think Gollum would actually be a reference!
I should have known that one (having climbed both sides).
the yiddish word is Golem.
Gollum, Right Side 1967 Joe Kelsey, Roman Laba, John Hudson
Gollum, Left Side 1972 Peter Haan, Rick Linkert, David Moss
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=313637
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richross
Trad climber
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May 16, 2014 - 11:06am PT
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Ant's Line with Ent's to the left.
Ent's line is to his left. ( presumably the skinny tree is an Ent)
The tree has fattened up a bit!
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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May 16, 2014 - 02:07pm PT
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From the Needles guide book. Don't know the hobbit that well but here are some related ones I think. Aku Aku, bartizan, the brothers kaseltzer, cricket tor, dallymore spur, frug, gollum, Orc cave, kaoz, koh-ring, rubaiyat, khayyam, and many more.
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darkmagus
Mountain climber
San Diego, CA
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May 16, 2014 - 02:38pm PT
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We've got "Middle Earth" at Mission Gorge here in San Diego... LOTS of Tolkien references!
"Glamdring" is a favorite...
...and "Shadowfax" !
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Texplorer
Trad climber
Sacramento
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May 16, 2014 - 03:00pm PT
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Eye of Sauron. A real killer
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Andy Fielding
Trad climber
UK
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May 16, 2014 - 03:26pm PT
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Scafell Crag, Lake District, UK
Black Rider
Shadowfax
The White Wizard
Ringwraith
The Nazgul
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jeb013
climber
portland, or
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May 16, 2014 - 03:38pm PT
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Frodos Journey
Hobbit Hole
Gandalf's Grip
All at Broughton Bluff in Troutdale, Or
jeb
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Topic Author's Reply - May 16, 2014 - 04:38pm PT
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that tree did fatten up (just comparing the two pics)!
There's something about the ominous feelings we might get climbing on dark and foreboding climbs that resonates with the Sauron based evil in Middle Earth.
Doing battle, overcoming against all odds, small things matter are other themes.
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Oregon
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May 16, 2014 - 09:02pm PT
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From the Needles guide book. Don't know the hobbit that well but here are some related ones I think. Aku Aku, bartizan, the brothers kaseltzer, cricket tor, dallymore spur, frug, gollum, Orc cave, kaoz, koh-ring, rubaiyat, khayyam, and many more.
Some of these didn't sound right from my Tolkien geek days, so I ran some through the Tolkien Gateway, the definitive source on all things Middle Earth.
Aku aku -- no matches. Sounds like something Polynesian. Fish, maybe? At any rate, it's a Thor Heyerdahl book. Alternatively, Aku Aku is the guardian of the Wumpa Islands and the father figure of Crash Bandicoot and his friends.
Bartizan -- no matches. It is a wall mounted projecting turret on medieval wall fortifications.
Kazeltzer -- not even looking it up. There was a comedy troupe. One guy was named Al.
Cricket tor -- see last answer
Dallymore Spur -- sounds like a branch line in the Toonerville Trolleys comic strip.
Frug -- I'm from the 60's. It was a dance.
Kaoz -- a tattoo parlor in Pensacola Florida. Sailors go there.
Rubbiyat and Khayyam are a Persian love poem and poet, respectively.
Koh ring -- goggle returns
"With regard to a lap hysterectomy, dictator uses a Koh/KOH ring ..."
I'm saying bogus, or truly one ring to rule them all.
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sac
Trad climber
Sun Coast B.C.
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May 17, 2014 - 12:31am PT
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Saugy
Mountain climber
BC
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May 17, 2014 - 02:27am PT
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Mt. Gandalf - Coast Mtns, B.C. - Mar. 2013
Gandalf two days later - Now the Misty Mtns. - Shadowfax and Peregrine abide here as well
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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The "Mighty Roofs of Mordor" on Journey Through Mirkwood 5.11b
Courtesy MP.com and Brad Brandewie
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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I wore a musty mtns harness, when I climbed the mines of Moria pitches on tricks of the Trade, in Zion.
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