Why Yes, My Backyard Does Overlook Mordor

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1. Dean says:
   April 28, 2008 at 8:34 pm

   So Mordor is in Ohio.

   I should have known that.
2. jm says:
   April 28, 2008 at 8:38 pm

   The Great Eye is ever watchful.
3. BJS says:
   April 28, 2008 at 9:09 pm

   A-HAH!
   The Evil you referenced previously is begining to show its (his? her? yo?) ugly head!

   I shall me watching you with my Anti-Evil kit ™ I just purchased from http://www.Scalvi.com/specific.

   I’ve got my eye on you!
4. JReynolds says:
   April 28, 2008 at 9:19 pm

   One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
   One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
   In the Land of Ohio where the Shadows lie.
5. Mark says:
   April 28, 2008 at 9:33 pm

   One does not simply mow the property line to Mordor! It’s black gates are guarded by more than just dogs. There are evil WEEDS there, that never sleep. The Great Eye Webcam is ever watchful. It is a wasteland riddled with mold, pollen, and dust. The very air you breathe is a poisonous fume. Not with 10,000 landscapers could you do this… It Is Folly!!
6. Steve Buchheit says:
   April 28, 2008 at 9:40 pm

   So would that make Cleveland’s Terminal Tower Minas Morgul, or Minus Tirith?
7. Christian says:
   April 28, 2008 at 11:07 pm

   Someday, just for grins – you should share your p’shopping techniques. I like what you did with the exposure and saturation.
8. Sean Li says:
   April 28, 2008 at 11:11 pm

   Doesn’t actually look that menacing, I must say. A bit fiery, yes, but not ‘gloom and doom’, more ‘you have a sun next door’.
9. John Scalzi says:
   April 28, 2008 at 11:12 pm

   Actually I did very little. I let the camera pick the exposure length and other than that the only thing I did was pump up the contrast slightly, and sharpen the image once I got it down to 450×300.
10. Stacey says:
    April 29, 2008 at 1:04 am

    Fonky
11. Jamie says:
    April 29, 2008 at 7:30 am

    One does not simply build a deck to Mordor.
12. Tom says:
    April 29, 2008 at 7:38 am

    I….SEE….YOU!!! ;-)
13. Joe Rybicki says:
    April 29, 2008 at 7:50 am

    It’s not so much the smoke and smell, it’s the incessant singing.

    “We’re gonna march all day, all day, all day,
    ‘Cause where there’s a whip, there’s a way…”
14. Mark Evans says:
    April 29, 2008 at 8:50 am

    No, Ohio is not Mordor. The picture was taken looking west so Mordor is clearly Indiana. Ever notice how the Indy 500 is on a giant RING-shaped track?
15. Novembrance says:
    April 29, 2008 at 9:18 am

    Sheesssssssssh. That’ssssssss cool.
16. Irene Delse says:
    April 29, 2008 at 9:33 am

    Mordor, Ohio… Or Indiana? According to Westlake, it’s somewhere in New Jersey.

    Nice country, eh? ;-)
17. hugh57 says:
    April 29, 2008 at 9:39 am

    Mark Evans @14:
    No, Ohio is not Mordor. The picture was taken looking west so Mordor is clearly Indiana.

    So Ohio is East of Mordor? Hmm, I think I see a Steinbeck/Tolkien mashup here.
18. Brad says:
    April 29, 2008 at 9:47 am

    Ah that’s not Mordor – That’s Piqua! Oh wait…
19. Irene Delse says:
    April 29, 2008 at 10:34 am

    Ohio, east of Mordor… Oh, dear! That makes it a part of the dreaded eastern wilderlands, near the Sea of Rhûn, whose denizens may be human, but seem only slightly better than Orcs. Well, at least, hunting the wild oxen must provide some nice entertainment for the cats!
20. Keri says:
    April 29, 2008 at 12:13 pm

    Say hi to Sauron for me. We go waaaaaaaay back.
21. Mark Evans says:
    April 29, 2008 at 10:44 pm

    Ohio, home to the dreaded B’huc-Hai.
22. Joe Rybicki says:
    April 29, 2008 at 10:48 pm

    Mark @21: I winced, then I laughed, then I winced. Well played, sir.
23. Pete Newell says:
    April 29, 2008 at 10:57 pm

    All I can say is, if your backyard floods in the spring I wouldn’t be looking too deep into those puddles if I were you.
24. OriGuy says:
    April 30, 2008 at 1:03 am

    Indiana can’t be Mordor. Not only does it not have a volcano, it doesn’t have any mountains to speak of. Doom Hill just doesn’t have the same feel.

    Isengard, maybe.

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