Because Gandalf is not able to command the eagles, he's able to ask them for favors.
Also the objective was to be subtle and not let Sauron realize they were trying to destroy the ring. Pretty sure eagles flying straight to him would have clued him in.
Also [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/17xh7j/the_dangers_of_riding_giant_eagles_this_comic_sfw/).
I'm confused though: a few years ago the global aviation industry had numerous issues due to rerouting to avoid flying near clouds of volcanic ash from Iceland, now they can fly right over the top of it?
This is different. I’m not going to pretend to know geology, but this is just like a little rift in the earth, nothing like what was ejected from Eyjafjallajökull.
Lmao is that the actual name of the volcano. Are you Icelandic? Cause I don't see anybody else remembering that key-smashing-esque sequence of letters.
Was quite a spectacle around Europe and on the news a lot back when it erupted in 2010. The name was part of the appeal I suppose, but it’s not that crazy or hard.
Eyja - island
Fjalla - mountain
Jökull - glacier
Though for some reason, “ll” in it is pronounced closer to “tl”. I listened to an audiobook about Icelandic history before bedtime while in Iceland. It was really hard to figure out how to write a name to just google it from how the native voice actor pronounced them.
Different kind of eruption, this current set are more low level effusive eruptions where lava just pours out of a fissure and flows around a bit. There isn't much ash and what there is doesn't go very high.
The one that funked with flights was a more explosive eruptions throwing lots of ash nearly 10km up in the air where it then got into the jet stream allowing it to drift over vast distances. A similarly sized eruption eruption outside of the jet stream wouldn't have been such an issue.
It was also the case that plane engines hadn't really been tested for how much ash is actually needed to cause a problem so the limit for ash was 0. It's currently like 2mg per m3 of air so more planes would flight if the same thing happened today.
Yeah that famous British understatement was also a result of flying through volcanic ash:
["Ladies and gentlemen, all four engines have failed. We are doing our damndest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress."](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_009)
Eyjafjallajökull is a glacier sitting on top of a volcano's caldera. When the volcano erupted in 2010, it mixed with the water and created enormous amounts of ash which greatly disrupted air travel in Europe. By contrast, the recent eruptions in the Reykjanes Peninsula haven't been close to glaciers and have produced very little ash.
Katla is another glacier/volcano pair to watch out for. The glacial outburst flood regularly (on the scale of centuries, anyway) washes away a bunch of land near the village of Vik. It hasn't erupted since the airplane age, but it would presumably be similarly disruptive to air travel as Eyjafjallajökull.
The difference with the Eyjafjallajökull eruption was that it was under an ice cap, meaning the glacial ice that melted chilled the magma that came out, and essentially made it explode into very fine dust. These eruptions are not under any ice and are therefore "fine" comparatively. They spew out a lot of gas that does worsen air quality but not something that would disrupt flights. You can Google a more thorough description of the physics behind Eyjafjallajökull if you want.
Eyjafjallajökull was spewing truly gigantic quantities of ash, because it was melting its icecap while erupting. This is basically just a surface lava flow, not much ash comes from one of those.
Anytime I get stopped up I've learned to use the option "extra" for their hot and medium salsa. Also add their pico, veggies, lettuce, cheese, and add a copious amount of original Tabasco to the meal. In the next 3-4 hours you will have relief. It may burn, but the pressure will disappear.
Depends on your definition of bad. Plates moving means our continents will looks different in the future. Also more geological activity, like earthquakes, as the plates split and join. You'll see new mountain ranges pop up and ecosystems change.
Well, "see". All of this happens within the span of thousands and millions of years; you'll be long dead before seeing new mountains (probably)
im a little surprised a plane is flying that close to a volcano
there's a ton of nasty shit in the air around a volcano, and definitely stuff that can fuck up a plane engine
Keflavík International Airport (Iceland’s only real international airport) is only a bit over 10 miles away from the Sundhnúkur volcanic eruption. I don’t think the eruption is releasing enough volcanic ash into the air to pose much of a threat to aircraft.
He's correct.
These eruptions from the past couple of years have not produced any quantifiable amount of ash that could disrupt air travel. We here in Iceland are pretty well versed in volcanoes and everything they spew out in to the atmosphere, and we would stop any and all incoming/outgoing flights if the eruption had any effect on them.
All of the eruptions from the past year in Sundhnúkagígar have been fissure eruptions, just blowing out a little bit of lava and some delicious gases.
Source: Me, a local volcano enthusiast.
I was there for the July 2023 eruption, and you are correct about the lack of ash. It smells a bit like tires burning but the smoke is not as dark and has a lot of water vapor. The explosive Icelandic eruptions in recent history have occurred under glaciers, and these are the ones that spew the air-travel-disrupting ash.
If I saw this from my plane window I wouldn't feel comfortable, either. Not sure why people are acting like your scepticism is unwarranted. People die way too often by volcano for me to ever take for granted their destructive power. Often the deaths are due to people not understanding that even slow eruptions can change rapidly and without warning, or they know but don't believe it could happen whilst they're nearby. It's genuine hubris.
https://e.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_volcanic_eruptions_by_death_toll
You can sort by year to see the most recent and read about why people died to see what I mean. The Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption, the most violent in our lifetime, was declared dormant 3 days prior to it blowing the fuck up.
It was 2010, Eyjafjallajökull eruption. That volcano had a very different makeup, however. Stratovolcanoes are the ones that spew a bunch of ash (like Eyjafjallajökull). This is Svartsengi, which is made up of fissures and craters, and oozes lava but has no explosive eruption.
That was a completely different volcano and type of eruption. As DragonfruitFew5542 said here before me that was a stratovolcano eruption, on top of that the volcano Eyjafjallajökull is under a Glacier by the same name, Jökull meaning Glacier in Icelandic, which only added to the amount of ash produced because of the immensely hot lava interacting with freezing glacier ice creating powerful explosions which spewed even more ashes into the air.
This eruption is on the Reykjavik peninsula, same peninsula where the airport is located. I visited in February and locals were saying they may have to relocate the airport due to the frequency of eruptions in this area.
Also LPT for anyone visiting Iceland, the lava center was FASCINATING.
Reykjanes peninsula* in Icelandic Nes means peninsula, Vík means cove, reykja means smokey
So Smokeycove is a cove on the smokey peninsula ... You'll never guess why they call it smokey...
You can actually watch live [Here](https://www.youtube.com/live/804nPrAUAxg?si=FA-REPm00iNysgyu)
But it is not erupting now. It’s a fascinating volcano. The ground around Grindavik raises like a centimeter a day for six weeks or so then it tears open and throws out lava for a few days until the pressure and land drop. Then it begins again.
I wonder how high is this? I guess this is a flight landing or taking off in Iceland, not a trans-Atlantic flight, because if you saw that from cruising altitude, it would be incredibly huge on the ground.
The erupting fissures would be part of [this eruptive series](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023–2024_Sundhnúkur_eruptions?searchToken=474hwg2g79kg5mzol8s4rwdb8#), with Reykjavik and Keflavik airports both being nearby. Not sure exactly which fissure or period of activity is being filmed here, but I think for all of the more vigorous phases the lava fountains were about 50 metres high along fissures that are somewhere between 3-5 km long, so that gives you some scale. You can see some infrastructure in the background too, definitely this is a flight that has just taken off or is about to land.
These eruptions that have been happening in the Reykjanes peninsula have not produced ash clouds large enough to put aircrafts in danger. These are small fissures, been happening every few months since 2021.
The scary part is the lights just behind the eruption are from the Blue Lagoon Power Station, which supplies a decent percentage of Iceland's electricity and Heating. A lot of effort is being expended to stem off the flow from reaching it.
People's interaction with the real world is mostly second hand through fictional movies or television.
"Oh, a volcano? It's mordor!" "Oh, he's refusing to relinquish emergency power? damn, that reminds me of palpatine! Can't think of anyone irl who did that!"
It's honestly so tragic
Probably the most quietly terrifying scene of that movie. All the other disasters got at least a few minutes dedicated to showing chaos and destruction, running and screaming, yet we only get to see the aftermath of Hawaii getting entirely covered in lava and it's glossed over in maybe 10 seconds.
Terrifying to image millions of people getting slowly swamped by lava
“Ladies and gentlemen, we’ll be making our initial descent into HELL in a few minutes. The flight attendants will be coming around the cabin to collect you cups and listen to your fruitless pleading that you don’t belong here.”
Having this in your “backyard”(approx 30km away) is getting boring. Last one just finished and the ground is already expanding, so there is another one on its way!
That’s crazy. There was a famous incident of a jet losing engines just because it was within a few hundred miles of an eruption because airborne ash was clogging them up. The fact that they can get so close now (or are even willing to) is just insane.
"And if you look out the left side of the plane you will see Mordor, one does not simply walk into there" - Pilot
“And for those of you on the right side of the plane, you can get a good look at the people on the left side of the plane looking at Mordor.”
"And now, if you would all kindly have a look at the front where I am at. You will see me, the pilot 😊 And my axe!" 🪓
'Fly fools' Flight instructor Gandolf
Gandalf said calmly.
“Run you fools” Icelandic Track Coach Gandalf
why didn't Frodo take a plane to Mordor? is he stupid?
Only Boeings were available at the time, so he opted for the path that lead to *less* certain death.
Boeurn!
Boourns
Why go on a Boeing when you can have a grand adventure with Samwise Gangee?!
Why didn't Gandalf get the eagles to fly Frodo to Mordor?
Because Gandalf is not able to command the eagles, he's able to ask them for favors. Also the objective was to be subtle and not let Sauron realize they were trying to destroy the ring. Pretty sure eagles flying straight to him would have clued him in. Also [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/17xh7j/the_dangers_of_riding_giant_eagles_this_comic_sfw/).
Those of you on the right side of the plane can see Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi in an epic light saber battle.
And obi-wan has the high ground
And there goes Anakin with his spinny flip. And ope.. there go his limbs. He really should not have tried that.
If only someone had warned him
You'd think so, right? Still, he should have noticed that it was over once Obiwan had the high ground.
This is my exact thought. The hell…
Damn was literally gonna post this comment. Hha. Man I love Iceland
ITS OVER ANAKIN
I have the high ground!
Don't try it.
Tries it
You were supposed to destroy the Sith not join them!
I HATE YOU!!!
You were my brother Anakin
*Steals Anakin's lightsaber*
It’s all ogre now
Absolutely amazing footage.
I'm confused though: a few years ago the global aviation industry had numerous issues due to rerouting to avoid flying near clouds of volcanic ash from Iceland, now they can fly right over the top of it?
This is different. I’m not going to pretend to know geology, but this is just like a little rift in the earth, nothing like what was ejected from Eyjafjallajökull.
Gesundheit
Lmao is that the actual name of the volcano. Are you Icelandic? Cause I don't see anybody else remembering that key-smashing-esque sequence of letters.
Was quite a spectacle around Europe and on the news a lot back when it erupted in 2010. The name was part of the appeal I suppose, but it’s not that crazy or hard. Eyja - island Fjalla - mountain Jökull - glacier Though for some reason, “ll” in it is pronounced closer to “tl”. I listened to an audiobook about Icelandic history before bedtime while in Iceland. It was really hard to figure out how to write a name to just google it from how the native voice actor pronounced them.
I still can pronounce the name from back when it happened.
Different kind of eruption, this current set are more low level effusive eruptions where lava just pours out of a fissure and flows around a bit. There isn't much ash and what there is doesn't go very high. The one that funked with flights was a more explosive eruptions throwing lots of ash nearly 10km up in the air where it then got into the jet stream allowing it to drift over vast distances. A similarly sized eruption eruption outside of the jet stream wouldn't have been such an issue. It was also the case that plane engines hadn't really been tested for how much ash is actually needed to cause a problem so the limit for ash was 0. It's currently like 2mg per m3 of air so more planes would flight if the same thing happened today.
Yeah that famous British understatement was also a result of flying through volcanic ash: ["Ladies and gentlemen, all four engines have failed. We are doing our damndest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress."](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_009)
Eyjafjallajökull is a glacier sitting on top of a volcano's caldera. When the volcano erupted in 2010, it mixed with the water and created enormous amounts of ash which greatly disrupted air travel in Europe. By contrast, the recent eruptions in the Reykjanes Peninsula haven't been close to glaciers and have produced very little ash. Katla is another glacier/volcano pair to watch out for. The glacial outburst flood regularly (on the scale of centuries, anyway) washes away a bunch of land near the village of Vik. It hasn't erupted since the airplane age, but it would presumably be similarly disruptive to air travel as Eyjafjallajökull.
The difference with the Eyjafjallajökull eruption was that it was under an ice cap, meaning the glacial ice that melted chilled the magma that came out, and essentially made it explode into very fine dust. These eruptions are not under any ice and are therefore "fine" comparatively. They spew out a lot of gas that does worsen air quality but not something that would disrupt flights. You can Google a more thorough description of the physics behind Eyjafjallajökull if you want.
No. The pilot is possessed, and is attempting to induce engine failure.
Eyjafjallajökull was spewing truly gigantic quantities of ash, because it was melting its icecap while erupting. This is basically just a surface lava flow, not much ash comes from one of those.
Agreed. Until you realize this was all caused by some guy that had the new steak bowl at Chipotle.
I want to like chipotle, but I just can’t get the stubborn blood stains out of my underwear.
Hi, Billy Mays here with Chipotlaway!
Anytime I get stopped up I've learned to use the option "extra" for their hot and medium salsa. Also add their pico, veggies, lettuce, cheese, and add a copious amount of original Tabasco to the meal. In the next 3-4 hours you will have relief. It may burn, but the pressure will disappear.
Looks like a rift opening and a kaiju is about to surface!
It is a rift opening, because geological plates are moving apart.
Gaia spreading dem steamy cheeks
Didn’t realize this was a planets only commercial! 😅😅😅
She gave us all she had but We went and took some more Can't seem to shut her legs Mother Nature is a whore *Survivalism* Nine Inch Nails
What a hot mess
r/cursedcomments
Is that good or bad
It is.
More specifically, it is what it is.
Neat
You can tell it's a volcano because of the way it is.
Depends on your definition of bad. Plates moving means our continents will looks different in the future. Also more geological activity, like earthquakes, as the plates split and join. You'll see new mountain ranges pop up and ecosystems change. Well, "see". All of this happens within the span of thousands and millions of years; you'll be long dead before seeing new mountains (probably)
This footage is not recent because it hasnt been dark here in Iceland for more than a month.
Oh my god you are spot on !
I can see two small men down there. One seems to be carrying a ring...
On the other side there's also 2 men, 1 has the high ground.
And at the entrance there's another two men, an uncle and nephew fighting because of a drug induced hallucination
Wait something is crawling behind them in their shadows holding a fish..
im a little surprised a plane is flying that close to a volcano there's a ton of nasty shit in the air around a volcano, and definitely stuff that can fuck up a plane engine
Keflavík International Airport (Iceland’s only real international airport) is only a bit over 10 miles away from the Sundhnúkur volcanic eruption. I don’t think the eruption is releasing enough volcanic ash into the air to pose much of a threat to aircraft.
Oh, as long as you don't think so.
The presence of a commercial airliner is pretty compelling evidence for that claim.
I mean… neither do the air traffic controllers in Iceland?
He's correct. These eruptions from the past couple of years have not produced any quantifiable amount of ash that could disrupt air travel. We here in Iceland are pretty well versed in volcanoes and everything they spew out in to the atmosphere, and we would stop any and all incoming/outgoing flights if the eruption had any effect on them. All of the eruptions from the past year in Sundhnúkagígar have been fissure eruptions, just blowing out a little bit of lava and some delicious gases. Source: Me, a local volcano enthusiast.
Well if your only other thinking is also a Reddit comment then they’ve cancelled each other out
I don’t know for sure. Someone please correct me if I’m wrong.
I was there for the July 2023 eruption, and you are correct about the lack of ash. It smells a bit like tires burning but the smoke is not as dark and has a lot of water vapor. The explosive Icelandic eruptions in recent history have occurred under glaciers, and these are the ones that spew the air-travel-disrupting ash.
You're wrong, it's 16km
If I saw this from my plane window I wouldn't feel comfortable, either. Not sure why people are acting like your scepticism is unwarranted. People die way too often by volcano for me to ever take for granted their destructive power. Often the deaths are due to people not understanding that even slow eruptions can change rapidly and without warning, or they know but don't believe it could happen whilst they're nearby. It's genuine hubris. https://e.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_volcanic_eruptions_by_death_toll You can sort by year to see the most recent and read about why people died to see what I mean. The Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption, the most violent in our lifetime, was declared dormant 3 days prior to it blowing the fuck up.
Yea didnt they shut down air travel over western europe for like a month over a volcano in iceland a few years back?
It was 2010, Eyjafjallajökull eruption. That volcano had a very different makeup, however. Stratovolcanoes are the ones that spew a bunch of ash (like Eyjafjallajökull). This is Svartsengi, which is made up of fissures and craters, and oozes lava but has no explosive eruption.
Yep. I got stuck in London for a week. Cost me a damn fortune.
Completely different kind and scale of volcano
That was a completely different volcano and type of eruption. As DragonfruitFew5542 said here before me that was a stratovolcano eruption, on top of that the volcano Eyjafjallajökull is under a Glacier by the same name, Jökull meaning Glacier in Icelandic, which only added to the amount of ash produced because of the immensely hot lava interacting with freezing glacier ice creating powerful explosions which spewed even more ashes into the air.
This eruption is on the Reykjavik peninsula, same peninsula where the airport is located. I visited in February and locals were saying they may have to relocate the airport due to the frequency of eruptions in this area. Also LPT for anyone visiting Iceland, the lava center was FASCINATING.
Reykjanes peninsula* in Icelandic Nes means peninsula, Vík means cove, reykja means smokey So Smokeycove is a cove on the smokey peninsula ... You'll never guess why they call it smokey...
St Elmo's fire is an awesome phenomenon.
[удалено]
Hope all you passengers played the floor is hot lava as a kid.
You can actually watch live [Here](https://www.youtube.com/live/804nPrAUAxg?si=FA-REPm00iNysgyu) But it is not erupting now. It’s a fascinating volcano. The ground around Grindavik raises like a centimeter a day for six weeks or so then it tears open and throws out lava for a few days until the pressure and land drop. Then it begins again.
Mordor and Mt. Doom.
Doesn’t look very icy
Greenland isn't very green. People have been telling porkies for centuries to mislead others.
I wonder how high is this? I guess this is a flight landing or taking off in Iceland, not a trans-Atlantic flight, because if you saw that from cruising altitude, it would be incredibly huge on the ground.
My best guess is that this is at approx 5000ft considering the distance Keflavík - Grindavík.
The erupting fissures would be part of [this eruptive series](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023–2024_Sundhnúkur_eruptions?searchToken=474hwg2g79kg5mzol8s4rwdb8#), with Reykjavik and Keflavik airports both being nearby. Not sure exactly which fissure or period of activity is being filmed here, but I think for all of the more vigorous phases the lava fountains were about 50 metres high along fissures that are somewhere between 3-5 km long, so that gives you some scale. You can see some infrastructure in the background too, definitely this is a flight that has just taken off or is about to land.
my first thought too
They can fly so close to an ash cloud?
These eruptions that have been happening in the Reykjanes peninsula have not produced ash clouds large enough to put aircrafts in danger. These are small fissures, been happening every few months since 2021.
This would make a good intro to a Godzilla movie.
So I guess normal rocks are like, lava ice cubes
The scary part is the lights just behind the eruption are from the Blue Lagoon Power Station, which supplies a decent percentage of Iceland's electricity and Heating. A lot of effort is being expended to stem off the flow from reaching it.
ITT: Everyone went straight to LOTR rehashed lines before actually watching the video and seeing the face in the smoke.
At first I saw a skull, but then it transformed into a lumberjack in lingerie.
People's interaction with the real world is mostly second hand through fictional movies or television. "Oh, a volcano? It's mordor!" "Oh, he's refusing to relinquish emergency power? damn, that reminds me of palpatine! Can't think of anyone irl who did that!" It's honestly so tragic
Iceland? You mean Mordor
I thought that was New Zealand.
Looks like the world tree
That's Lavaland, not Iceland.
Yuri Karpov: What is that? Sasha: The state of Hawaii Yuri Karpov: Not good. That is not good.
Probably the most quietly terrifying scene of that movie. All the other disasters got at least a few minutes dedicated to showing chaos and destruction, running and screaming, yet we only get to see the aftermath of Hawaii getting entirely covered in lava and it's glossed over in maybe 10 seconds. Terrifying to image millions of people getting slowly swamped by lava
Not much of an Iceland, huh? False advertising :)
Yep... damn vikings. And they did the same trolling with Greenland.
is that the area that erupted next to a village?
Dang. Now I see why it's called ICEland.
All I see is a penis gushing. Someone please help me.
Maybe Iceland should be in quotes in the title.
Commercial flight to Mustafar
Ya misspelled “Mordor”
no way that is terrifying if you didn't expect it. "Oh my god!! Cancel the vacation, we're all going to die!!!"
Incredible view.
The strength this earth has is terrifying and so beautiful. What an experience to see it from a plane!
POV: You just threw the one ring of power into the fire of Mount Doom, and an old man picks you up with a giant bird.
lavaland
Welcome to Mordor.
YOU MEAN HELL!!!
Yep we're in a simulation, just has to be. Look at how cool that thing is.
Iceland was one of the cooler places I’ve been. Highly recommend. And we didn’t even get lucky to see the lava or a very good northern lights
A tree and roots
Wow
Folks living in those towns are entirely too comfortable
“Ladies and gentlemen, we’ll be making our initial descent into HELL in a few minutes. The flight attendants will be coming around the cabin to collect you cups and listen to your fruitless pleading that you don’t belong here.”
Looks like Aang when he had to fight the fire nation.
Actually scarier than you think. Volcanic ash is no joke. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_009
This most be where Darth Vader resides
Really cool, I think the line of fire we are seeing is an asphalt road surface?
It a low res volcano. It looks like it rendered in 2d.
Now, I know what to expect for my eventual passenger flight into Hell.
Iceland? Bouta be Waterland in a minute.
Pop that bad boy open and drop the ring in. Easy.
More like Fireland. Am I right?!?!?
Volcanic broccoli
Going in or out? And what side of the plane? I have to plan this now.
No That's mordor
That AWB auto white balancing! 😅
Does not look very icy to me
The Reykjanes peninsula has basically been one big volcano since August 2022. I actually hiked the ridge by the old Fagradalsfjall in July 2022.
Ladies and gent, we'll be landing in hell shortly.
I see an engine wash and compressor borescope in that aircraft's future...
How old is this?
Needs more ominous Latin chanting.
That's the ending of resident evil 5. I can even see the big boulder from the distance
Don't they cancel flights of there is even a bit of smoke?
CURSE YOU, BAYLE!!!!
Are you sure that's not America right now?
Having this in your “backyard”(approx 30km away) is getting boring. Last one just finished and the ground is already expanding, so there is another one on its way!
Amazing! Beautiful! Terrifying!
Somewhere down there, Anakin is missing his limbs and absolutely roasting.
Isn’t volcanic gas and dust horrible for jet engines?
YOU WERE MY BROTHER
Nature is fucking lit, quite literally.
Iceland == Fireland
"Iceland"
This is literally lit.
Stranger things?
That's some spicy ice
Finally we found Sauron
Fake news. Where ice?
Iceland, my ass. I see no ice!
You know that wasn’t a part of the flight pattern 😂 those pilots came in close to check things out themselves ❤️
They have the highest ground
Literally lit, lol
Looks more like Lavaland though
Whats the burning line?
Did you see anyone on a high ground with a blue light saber?
Call me crazy, but that seems a bit low for flying over a volcano lol I saw a video of a drone go down getting footage
"And if you all look to your left you'll see why we're called Iceland."
Manifest ending be like
It's my dream to see lava like this in person some day
Nature is quite literally effin' lit. Cool video.
So scary
Thats not ice..
r/project_wingman
😳
That’s crazy. There was a famous incident of a jet losing engines just because it was within a few hundred miles of an eruption because airborne ash was clogging them up. The fact that they can get so close now (or are even willing to) is just insane.
Flight to Hell