Subject: I told my mum, she brought this up...
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Posted on: 2014-06-06 12:41:00 UTC
...which came first?
That is, were the mountains on Titan named AFTER the Middle-Earth mountains, or did Tolkein get the names for his mountains from the moon?
The mountains of Titan are named after the mountains of Middle-earth.
Too stunned and gleeful to say anything else; you can take it from here. ;)
hS
So, hey, I've been wondering something.
I was re-reading the Original Series, and wondered where I can find the story that the mission Sisterhood is based off of. Does anyone think that they can help me?
You may be interested in my TOS Badfic Archive, which is where we (me, the Irish Samurai, and Lily Winterwood) have collated all the fragments of the badfics in TOS which we could find. 'Sisterhood' (the TOS missions are named after their badfics) has two chapters, reconstructed from an MST. I don't know if any more ever existed.
hS
...which came first?
That is, were the mountains on Titan named AFTER the Middle-Earth mountains, or did Tolkein get the names for his mountains from the moon?
Those mountains have only been discovered recently - in fact, a fair number post-date 2012. Some of the names of Tolkien's mountains (Angmar, for one) go back to 1917, when Titan was just a dot in the telescope.
(Also, a bunch of them are named in Elvish; Tolkien didn't often turn real words directly into Elvish ones, but preferred translating them)
hS
Well, what do you know about that. That is crazy.
The fact that there is an actual Mount Doom in our universe fills me with joy!
Let's see... I also see Xanadu (did Kubla Kahn... you get the idea.) Erebor (presumably the mountains are lonely) Merlock Mountain(Merlocks, really) and Angmar.
Dang, astronomers are nerds. ;)
Any Sue that claims a connection to any one of the the mountains in middle-earth can be teleported to the name-equivalent mountain on Titan.
Sans protective equipment.
Same thing works for Sues claiming connections with mt. Olympus, although in that case you'd need to use Mars.
Nesh, I shall join thee in thy pilgrimage, gladly.
-Aila
[Coughs]
Wait, I mean... what can this mysterious file be? Gasp! It must have fallen here from... [Drumroll] ... the future!
2057-2060 Titan PPC Gathering
hS is... well, you decide
Of course, if I would just get off my tail and making, I wouldn't have to wait . . .
Stupid phone.
That was...that was incredible. At first I was just grinning, but then...it started feeling kind of real, actually. Well done.
No, sorry. Incredibly well done. Wow.
100/10 would recommend. And no, that's not a typo.
~DF
Because- well, just- WOW. I almost felt like I was there, tramping over Titan, singing, Far over the Misty Mountains cold, to dungeons deep, and caverns-
AHEM.
Anyway. I will certainly come/have come/will come in the future.
Speaking of which, when is the next Gathering scheduled?
I remember you were using some kind of map system to work out where the gathering was going to take place. Maybe we can all put our general locations on there, irregardless of if we're in the UK or not. That way, if one place has a lot of PPC people, there could be another one there as well.
Seems like a good idea (and it's been a long time since I've had a handle on where everyone is). I'm trying to get one running, but don't have access to my emails - the last thing I want to do is post the one that disappeared all the time again! I'll make a thread when I've got something that works.
hS
Although I think I was one of the few people that the last one worked for too.
That'd be nice, even though the chances of having a gathering here are next to nothing (there's just me and DawnFire here IIRC).
Normally, I'm in Canada, but...yay vacations! :D Very fun. (I feel like such a tourist right now, help).
~DF
Hey, let's go one step further, and actually settle Titan! I've been holding out for a Mars colony, but this is even cooler!
Or, more usefully (and since fake!Sting wouldn't get through the metal detectors at Spaceport America), my rudimentary understanding of orbital dynamics from Kerbal Space Program, my working knowledge of Quenya and Sindarin, and my total geeky obsession with every aspect of Tolkien's legendarium that will be a light when all other lights go out.
(And we can plant two trees of actual gold and silver! And call our ship Vingilot! And I am far too excited about something this ridiculous)
hS
Gold and silver are rather heavy, though. They'll have to be smallish trees, or mostly composed of something else and gilded on the outside. They ought to have one fruit each, though, I think.
Ooh, ooh, can we ceremonially chuck a One Ring replica at Doom Mons? How's the gravity on Titan? Would it float majestically through the air on its way and land in a gentle puff of dust?
~Neshomeh
Although-- how is molten ice even possible, anyways? Doesn't that just, you know, not work? 'Course, I could be just missing something completely. *waves around "innocent high school freshman who should really be asleep" flag*
-Aila
...what, precisely, would happen to Gollum if he fell in there?
I might send an e-mail to Randall Munroe.
Titan's surface gravity is 0.14 g, which should be sufficient for majestic floating. It's a little less than the Moon's.
KSP rocket science is not going to get us there, though. We need someone with Orbiter experience.
Also, we can launch the trees up separately, then load them aboard once we've escaped Earth's gravity well. This may or may not make things easier.
...that probably means we have System Shock's concept of a super-light drive.
Which also means that I'll only be a moment. I have to figure out how this thing works, change my appearance and eff off into the universe of my choosing. After creating it.
...is the Von Braun's FTL drive, which can modify reality itself in all aspects (you-can-impossibly-have-missed-that-spoiler for System Shock 2, someone certain uses that drive to modify reality to suit their specifications. It's the final level.)
As for the second point...hm. That one's a little meta, I suppose.
I'm confused, though. "Erebor" looks a little too close to "Mt. Doom"; are they close in canon or is the scale of the photo just weird?
Criminally so, given the utter incredibility of what I'm actually talking about.
The actual mountains on Saturn's moon Titan are genuinely and officially named after the mountains of Middle-earth.
hS
