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Random shite – Lord of the Rings “trivia”

Came across this video. Bit of a click-bait title as I was like “what, ‘technicality’? No way. If you think that you’ve missed the plot”.

But actually it was pretty good, even highlighted a few things I hadn’t really twigged to.

Just interesting how in great story telling like this plot lines travel well through the story before they converge … and in fact in Tolkien’s case travel outside the story really and thousands of years into the story’s past.

My thoughts:

The witch king deploys wraiths thousands of years back, one of which ends up in the barrows, guarding amongst other things, weapons designed for wraith and witch king type destruction.

Coming forth to the story, the wraith captures the hobbits when they fail to follow Tom’s advice and stumble into the trap, and have to be rescued by Tom. In which they end up getting equipped with these ancient blades wrought long ago to defeat said wraiths and their masters etc.

Then, not covered in this video, but something I think is also of note, Sauron and Saruman, set in motion (unintentionally) the incident of Pippin and the palantíri (read the book/see the movie), which results in Gandalf riding off with Pippin, to Gondor. That results in Merry being left alone with the Rohan, and that results in him getting a ride with Eowyn, to the battle.

So if that bit (Pippin, the palantíri, etc.) had not occurred this would not have happened also.

And then that led to Merry stabbing the witch king and breaking the spell that bound his spirit to his form, which left the witch king vulnerable to Eowyns’ blade (“I am no man!“).

Phew, what a plot.

See the video:

https://youtu.be/_XCSAuKwLpE

Also:

I also note one of the comments states that it was not a ‘prophecy’ but a ‘doom’ that no man would kill the witch king. It no ways says the witch king is immortal or will never fall, in fact it basically states that he will, just doesn’t say it outright … but if he will fall to no man then QED he must fall to something else. His doom is sealed. Just a matter of time (in this case thousands of years, but still …).

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Interesting past few days

Well I have had an interesting time putting this site and initial content (The supposition of superposition) up. I have reviewed up on Bell’s theorem quite thoroughly (I know there’s a lot and I haven’t covered it all, but I have found some fascinating stuff and think I have the core of it “down cold” now).

And that has lead me back, oddly, pretty much to my starting point, in several ways. Since I started this whole quantum physics caper I have been wondering what do I do with this. Do I tell the world? If so, how do I tell the world? Or even which part of the world am I telling – the scientists? the layperson? whom? Even at the time, back then,  I had it pretty accurately analysed I think, as to what my options were, as I can see much the same options now, 3 years or so later.  they are: (i) I can try to convince the scientific world they they have “quantum computing” wrong, (ii) I can try to present it to the layperson as an informative explanation of what quantum physics is, or (most difficult of all) (iii) I can try to do both simultaneously*. (i) will be hard (neigh-on-impossible maybe) and (ii) while easier may have far less potential effect than (i) (and why do anything without the purpose of it making an effect on the world in some way (small or large)). So, as I write this paragraph I have come to the conclusion to try (iii). I have nothing to lose. 🙂

* (Insert pun about quantum physics here – “quantum superposition” means “in all (potential) states simultaneously” (or something to that effect)