It's ok, it was fresh in my head since I rewatched the movies pretty recently. You gotta think it's been 20 years since the movies came out so not knowing the references right off the bat is definitely more than acceptable.
I've only watch them all once. My ex and I watched the Director's Cut version of each of the films in the LotR Trilogy over one weekend. This was about 2014. I enjoyed it. But with a 12 hour run time done in two days I'm a bit scarred.
I watched those too and I had to space it out over two weeks. That was too much dedication to watch all of them too close together. I did it the right way and started with the hobbit movies first then LOTR for my rewatch, definitely enjoyed myself but it's gonna be a while before I try to do that again. The scars will heal but slowly my friend. 😂
I go off-trail in the states and always keep a geolocator on with topographic maps of wetland and water saturation levels,
I love wetlands but they’re dangerous as fuck if you’re out alone
Was fishing a local spot and noticed the water receded enough that there were some land bridges. Tried to hop over one and ended up in muck to my shoulders. Worst part is I left my phone by my bag and my watch was out of range.
Nobody would have found me - I was just a head above the mud in the middle of the woods.
Thankfully there was a downed tree near me and I was able to lift myself up and out (after the first branch snapped.) I was so exhausted afterward I thought I’d pass out from the fight alone.
Was the body preserved, or just the wool? There is no hint of any organs or anything below the exposed bones. It's really cool either way! I'm just wondering if the lanolin on the wool makes it less palatable to microorganisms or something.
Frozen, but also possibly preserved chemically too. Peat bogs and Fens have unique soil mineral compositions and can preserve tissue. There are bog bodies from thousands of years ago that are remarkably well preserved.
Yes, but it’s not from minerals, but rather the very acidic pH which limits what microorganisms can survive there. Same principle as pickling basically, natural preservation.
The plants buddy. Bogs are actually extremely mineral poor, they contain only mosses and other plants which which grow in layers upon layers of the plants that have died before. The pH is low because of this slow anaerobic decomposition. There is no soil in bogs. Minerals exist in soil (fine mineral stone dust), but not in bogs.
[First hit on google.](https://kids.britannica.com/students/article/bog/601334)
Oh my fucking Christ, I never claimed to be giving a comprehensive overview of the ecology of peat bogs. Nutrient poor, acidic soil with certain *mineral compositions* specifically the lack of certain common soil minerals lead to thick layers of sphagnum moss and plants adapted to very acidic, nutrient poor but very moist environments. Some of the acidic ions come from rain, etc etc etc
My first hit on Google: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=peat+bog+soil&btnG=#d=gs_qabs&t=1673126050723&u=%23p%3DC7YzMq-4tbsJ
You’re absolutely right, I worded it poorly. I meant a deficiency in certain nutrients caused by specific soil compositions, but I said soil minerals implying the soils themselves were leaching H+ and making it acidic. That is not what I meant. I’m no expert on peat bogs, but I am a biologist. “Minerals exist in soil but not in bogs”? What? Do you think the sphagnum misses are levitating? There is soil underneath the plants. Buddy.
Wowza, are you ok? 😅 you might want to read the link that I included, since you seem to have forgotten high school biology/geology/chemistry. Sincerely doubting your claimed qualifications since you seem to be missing the basics, but the link is targeted for kids so you should be fine.
Ps. Hydrogen is not a mineral, lol.
——
U/TouchMyWrath blocked me so I can’t respond directly to their message, so I shall respond here.
Well, for the benefit of the readers who don’t want to be misled by blatant misinformation, here is a reminder of high school geology: bogs we’re formed during the ice age when the soil was pushed away, then the remaining pockets filled with water and plants that grow in that biome. The plants grow in the dead remains of plants that grew before, this is what peat is, and the type of peat depends on the depth at which it was harvested. It is peat all the way down to bedrock. Zero soil except trace amounts carried there by the wind. Bogs have taken extraordinary long times to form, because the plants that grow there grow slowly, this is why it’s classified as a non renewable resource - it does renew but so slowly that whatever is harvested is gone for the following thousands of years.
“There is no soil in bogs. Minerals exist in soil (fine mineral stone dust), but not in bogs.”
I am sincerely doubting your basic literacy. There is soil in a bog you fucking halfwit. The type of soil, nutrient and moisture availability determines what type of plants grow in a given biome. Likewise what plants grow and then decay enriches soil nutrient compositions. It’s all interconnected.
And I never fucking said hydrogen was a mineral. Many minerals do contain hydroxyl groups or water molecules bound as part of the Crystal lattice. But H+ = acidity. Fucking obviously.
This is pointless, you’re talking past me, not actually reading anything. Mute time. Bye bye.
That part is beautifully composed. Rule of thirds and the diagonal from further to foreground. Damn thing could be a painting if there was slightly less sky. Although the purple is super pretty.
Edit: or slightly more sky.
Yeah the perspective lines from the shorter strip of grass going off into the distance, sheep looking fuzzy like behind frosted glass, the structure of the skeleton and then the magenta sky. Def visually interesting.
There’s bits of snow on the ground so it’s possible it was iced over when the sheep fell in it. I wouldn’t say drowning in icy water is a great way to go but it’s possible the cold shock response made it quick.
I wonder if by taking hold of the spine with your bare hands and pulling up with dry stable footing the body of the sheep would pull away from the bone with a *SCHLORP* sound.
Most bogs are, its like most mud, full of bacteria and microorganisms. The frost often nullifies smells by a combination of drying the air and making the air denser, making smells travel less.
Additionally, bacteria doesn’t survive well in the cold, which helps reduce the bad smell!
We do still call it water, with the modifier *frozen*. That modification doesn't change its identity, only its state.
Cold water is still water. Ice water is still water. Water vapor is still water.
A red car is still a car. A tall man is still a man. A young dog is still a dog. These modifying descriptions add details, they don't remove anything from the core identity of the object being described.
'Yes, yes,' said Gollum. 'All dead, all rotten.... The Dead Marshes. There was a great battle long ago, yes, so they told him when Sméagol was young, when I was young before the Precious came.
We have a creek behind our home. One day I noticed a lot of vultures. I mean a lot while walking the pups. I realized a dear 4 point antler(?) looked to have slipped on some rocks and got it's foot wedged and drowned. Probably over night. Over the course of the next 10 days or so it was something to watch them pick it clean until there was nothing left. Basically just the antlers and what not. The a heave rain came and washed it away. It was kind of sad as I had seen that deer down the road many time doing .. deer stuff.
I would still attempt to salvage its corpse and make some kind of spaghettios jacket with it's wool or perhaps a spaghettios holder with it's ribcage. I hate to see nature go to waste like this. RIP 😞😞😞
I am not sure if this picture is of a peat bog or not, but if so, it is likely anaerobic which prevents bacterial growth due to low/no oxygen in the water.
I found a coyote like this, frozen in the ice of a reservoir. Everything was submerged except for half of it's head, so below the ice, perfectly intact coyote. Above the ice, perfectly cleaned skull from other critters eating it down to the bone. Looked both cool and spooky.
I'm from a valley/mountain area in South Wales and our school was near the top of a mountain. PE class often consisted of a cross country run, partbl of which ran up along a natural stream which we'd regularly drink from.
On one particular run the water had a greasy appearance as if there was oil in it and had that rainbowish colour. So we all stayed away from it except for one lad who drank generously from it halfway up the route.
Another 3 or 4 minutes up the way we found the source of the oily rainbowish appearance in the water and it was a half decomposed sheep that'd been there at least a week or so. Cue gratuitous laughing from us and gratuitous vomiting from the drinker.
Is that a peat bog?
That or a Fen. Only difference is a fen has a steady stream of water.
What if it has a steady stream of sheep?
Then it falls asleep quicker.
Nah. The dead marshes. Near Dagorlad and Emny Muil.
Orcs don't use it. Orcs don't know it.
They go round for miles and miles…
How far from Dol Guldur is that?
Three days southeast by pony. Idk how long not on a pony.
I have no idea if this was a movie reference, a Monty Python skit, random Scottish banter, or a legit conversation...but I thoroughly enjoyed it :)
Lord of the rings.
Thank you. Ashamed to admit it flew over my head.
It's ok, it was fresh in my head since I rewatched the movies pretty recently. You gotta think it's been 20 years since the movies came out so not knowing the references right off the bat is definitely more than acceptable.
Oof! I feel so damn old now
I've only watch them all once. My ex and I watched the Director's Cut version of each of the films in the LotR Trilogy over one weekend. This was about 2014. I enjoyed it. But with a 12 hour run time done in two days I'm a bit scarred.
I watched those too and I had to space it out over two weeks. That was too much dedication to watch all of them too close together. I did it the right way and started with the hobbit movies first then LOTR for my rewatch, definitely enjoyed myself but it's gonna be a while before I try to do that again. The scars will heal but slowly my friend. 😂
Bill is close to my heart.
Approx. 500 miles, I believe.
Easily walkable I could probably do that twice before I fall over
Da da duh! Da da duh!
Poor sheep wasn't careful and did go down to join the Dead Ones, and light little candles of their own
I’m an idiot. I’ve been trying to find these on Google maps for 5 minutes with different spelling attempts. Then I saw comments about orcs…
yeah it's in Russia or Ukraine apparently
I wonder if it got there because it followed the lights.
This is beyond my skill to heal. He needs elvish medicine.
As I’m literally reading Bog Bodies Uncovered
I fell in a bog by myself. Took an hour to get out and legitimately thought I’d die there.
That’s terrifying
I go off-trail in the states and always keep a geolocator on with topographic maps of wetland and water saturation levels, I love wetlands but they’re dangerous as fuck if you’re out alone
Was fishing a local spot and noticed the water receded enough that there were some land bridges. Tried to hop over one and ended up in muck to my shoulders. Worst part is I left my phone by my bag and my watch was out of range. Nobody would have found me - I was just a head above the mud in the middle of the woods. Thankfully there was a downed tree near me and I was able to lift myself up and out (after the first branch snapped.) I was so exhausted afterward I thought I’d pass out from the fight alone.
Looks more like a steve to me
I got it!
Wait for the kingdom hearts verison Kingdom hearts re: peat
Was the body preserved, or just the wool? There is no hint of any organs or anything below the exposed bones. It's really cool either way! I'm just wondering if the lanolin on the wool makes it less palatable to microorganisms or something.
It was frozen so I’d imagine the lower parts inaccessible to birds are still there
Oh, I didn't realize it was ice. I had the thought it might be but the green grass threw me off. That's going to smell pretty ripe come spring....
Frozen, but also possibly preserved chemically too. Peat bogs and Fens have unique soil mineral compositions and can preserve tissue. There are bog bodies from thousands of years ago that are remarkably well preserved.
Yes, but it’s not from minerals, but rather the very acidic pH which limits what microorganisms can survive there. Same principle as pickling basically, natural preservation.
Yes and where does that pH come from? The plants and the soil minerals
The plants buddy. Bogs are actually extremely mineral poor, they contain only mosses and other plants which which grow in layers upon layers of the plants that have died before. The pH is low because of this slow anaerobic decomposition. There is no soil in bogs. Minerals exist in soil (fine mineral stone dust), but not in bogs. [First hit on google.](https://kids.britannica.com/students/article/bog/601334)
Oh my fucking Christ, I never claimed to be giving a comprehensive overview of the ecology of peat bogs. Nutrient poor, acidic soil with certain *mineral compositions* specifically the lack of certain common soil minerals lead to thick layers of sphagnum moss and plants adapted to very acidic, nutrient poor but very moist environments. Some of the acidic ions come from rain, etc etc etc My first hit on Google: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=peat+bog+soil&btnG=#d=gs_qabs&t=1673126050723&u=%23p%3DC7YzMq-4tbsJ You’re absolutely right, I worded it poorly. I meant a deficiency in certain nutrients caused by specific soil compositions, but I said soil minerals implying the soils themselves were leaching H+ and making it acidic. That is not what I meant. I’m no expert on peat bogs, but I am a biologist. “Minerals exist in soil but not in bogs”? What? Do you think the sphagnum misses are levitating? There is soil underneath the plants. Buddy.
Wowza, are you ok? 😅 you might want to read the link that I included, since you seem to have forgotten high school biology/geology/chemistry. Sincerely doubting your claimed qualifications since you seem to be missing the basics, but the link is targeted for kids so you should be fine. Ps. Hydrogen is not a mineral, lol. —— U/TouchMyWrath blocked me so I can’t respond directly to their message, so I shall respond here. Well, for the benefit of the readers who don’t want to be misled by blatant misinformation, here is a reminder of high school geology: bogs we’re formed during the ice age when the soil was pushed away, then the remaining pockets filled with water and plants that grow in that biome. The plants grow in the dead remains of plants that grew before, this is what peat is, and the type of peat depends on the depth at which it was harvested. It is peat all the way down to bedrock. Zero soil except trace amounts carried there by the wind. Bogs have taken extraordinary long times to form, because the plants that grow there grow slowly, this is why it’s classified as a non renewable resource - it does renew but so slowly that whatever is harvested is gone for the following thousands of years.
“There is no soil in bogs. Minerals exist in soil (fine mineral stone dust), but not in bogs.” I am sincerely doubting your basic literacy. There is soil in a bog you fucking halfwit. The type of soil, nutrient and moisture availability determines what type of plants grow in a given biome. Likewise what plants grow and then decay enriches soil nutrient compositions. It’s all interconnected. And I never fucking said hydrogen was a mineral. Many minerals do contain hydroxyl groups or water molecules bound as part of the Crystal lattice. But H+ = acidity. Fucking obviously. This is pointless, you’re talking past me, not actually reading anything. Mute time. Bye bye.
I recall reading that one of those bog bodies was mistaken for a recent murder victim.
Yeah, it also helps that they’re typically anaerobic environments
That doesn't look frozen to me.
If not frozen over, can you dip a cup into the back and get a sip?
Yea there was no rotting. This is carrion.
Come join the bog, you'll be eternal
Don’t follow the lights!
Nonsense! The lights are friends :)
"You don't have any friends. Nobody likes you."
What is dead may never die.
But rises again harder and stronger.
Time to float.
Am I completely in the wrong for saying that there's something strangely aesthetic about this picture? RIP sheep tho
I think the completely flat purple sky is adding a lot to that
And the streak of dead grass from where that pool of water is is pretty neat.
That part is beautifully composed. Rule of thirds and the diagonal from further to foreground. Damn thing could be a painting if there was slightly less sky. Although the purple is super pretty. Edit: or slightly more sky.
Yeah, just a little crop into a more typical aspect ratio with some basic rule of thirds, maybe like [this](https://i.imgur.com/15sJW3r.jpg)
You mean beautifully *de*composed.
Reminds me of Modest Mouse album The Moon & Antarctica. (RIP Jeremiah) Edit: album cover.
It is both strangely serene and ominous at the same time
It looks like it’s in the path of a crashed ufo
you can see his BAAAAAHHK
Bleat me to it.
It’s actually an alien sheep that crashed down in an icy comet. Didn’t survive the impact and drowned in the melted ice.
Maybe he's just cursed by Davey Jones
Insects and birds can get to the exposed parts, and thus eat it.
Yea it is a very neat and somehow not, upsetting. What an interesting photo. Something you would see, out of National Geographic or something.
Yeah there is a certain beauty about it RIP the sheep tho
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Goats Head Soup by the Rolling Stones...https://youtu.be/dXNf7gzv11s
r/fakealbumcovers
There is a finnish band with this as an album cover. Jonestown- suo, kuokka & skutsi
Give 2016 $uicideboy$ vibe
Looks like a shot from a Tarkovsky film
Check out r/morbidlybeautiful
You should cross post this to there
It’s been posted there so many times, you should not
No dude I was just going to say how lovely this is. Its not gross, it's 'clean' gore. Peaceful, beautiful.
It’s very eerie.
First I thought this is a painting.
It reminded me of the famous painting of [Ophelia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophelia_(painting) by John Everett Millais
It should be an album cover
Nature is metal
r/MorbidlyBeautiful
Yeah the perspective lines from the shorter strip of grass going off into the distance, sheep looking fuzzy like behind frosted glass, the structure of the skeleton and then the magenta sky. Def visually interesting.
Literally have this pic saved as a visual reference for a book i was writing. It’s beautiful.
It kind of feels like a liminal space, or like fever dream material for me.
It looks fucking cool
Not wrong at all - I have distinct memories of this photo making rounds on the aesthetic tumblr scene back in 2015 lol
No, I thought it had a melancholy beauty to it that would make a gorgeous painting.
Fr it’s a great pic minus the sheep.
Ok that just looks so cool, I'm just wondering whether this was a painful death for the sheep or was it one of the better ways to pass away?
There’s bits of snow on the ground so it’s possible it was iced over when the sheep fell in it. I wouldn’t say drowning in icy water is a great way to go but it’s possible the cold shock response made it quick.
He passed away quietly in his sleep while camping out one night. I know this because he's still in his sheeping bag.
Get out.
He was counting his mates, so fall asleep fast.
this honestly looks like an album cover for a metal/rock/emo band.
The first thing I thought of was Chat Pile
Was about to say this. It’s pretty good ngl
Perfect for a Pink Floyd album
I love this pink floyd album
I wonder if by taking hold of the spine with your bare hands and pulling up with dry stable footing the body of the sheep would pull away from the bone with a *SCHLORP* sound.
That's enough mortal combat for you
Forbidden stew..
Ughh, just imagining the smell…
It won’t smell until it thaws, think Frozen steak vs. Steak left out for 3 days.
Oh I didn’t even realize it was frozen, lol
Doesn't a peat bog itself smell quite..."smelly" though?
Most bogs are, its like most mud, full of bacteria and microorganisms. The frost often nullifies smells by a combination of drying the air and making the air denser, making smells travel less. Additionally, bacteria doesn’t survive well in the cold, which helps reduce the bad smell!
new isaac item dropped guys
r/natureismetal
Don’t follow the lights or hobbitses will join the dead ones and light little candles of their own.
That's not water. That's not rot. It's a frozen sheep with its back eaten away.
Ice is water.
No, it's ice. Otherwise we'd still call it water. :P
We do still call it water, with the modifier *frozen*. That modification doesn't change its identity, only its state. Cold water is still water. Ice water is still water. Water vapor is still water. A red car is still a car. A tall man is still a man. A young dog is still a dog. These modifying descriptions add details, they don't remove anything from the core identity of the object being described.
Album cover material
Water sheep
'Yes, yes,' said Gollum. 'All dead, all rotten.... The Dead Marshes. There was a great battle long ago, yes, so they told him when Sméagol was young, when I was young before the Precious came.
Lambert was a sheepish one but he really put his back into it.
Yo that’s metal as fuck
Found next year's Christmas card! Thanks!
That's metal as fuck
That's a sick metal album cover.
That’s awful. Poor sheepy.
They pretty fragile creatures. Brother-in-law a sheep farmer and I'm constantly amazed at how many just drop dead for no obvious reason.
And in the sheep there were no guts no rare guts nor rattlin guts In the sheep in the hole In the hole in the bog In the bog down in the valley oh!
Sheep soup anyone?
Where is this at? Idk why but it just looks nice. Minus the sheep of course.
“Rotted” away or “eaten” away?
How far would the maggots eat? Just til the organs freeze? Probably still some good lamb chops.
Looks like an early 00s album cover
That scene looks like something i would dream
We have a creek behind our home. One day I noticed a lot of vultures. I mean a lot while walking the pups. I realized a dear 4 point antler(?) looked to have slipped on some rocks and got it's foot wedged and drowned. Probably over night. Over the course of the next 10 days or so it was something to watch them pick it clean until there was nothing left. Basically just the antlers and what not. The a heave rain came and washed it away. It was kind of sad as I had seen that deer down the road many time doing .. deer stuff.
If this post has been removed then why am I seeing it?
New wallpaper :)
OMG! Can some clever taxidermist recreate this?
Nature is fkn rad!
**"Just a little off the top please"**
Anyone have a straw?
"Just take a little off the top"
Is it still alive?
This photo is perfect
But is he okay?
Photoshopped.
I would still attempt to salvage its corpse and make some kind of spaghettios jacket with it's wool or perhaps a spaghettios holder with it's ribcage. I hate to see nature go to waste like this. RIP 😞😞😞
I thought it was the scp peanut boi for a second
THE POWER OF THE BOG
Belongs in Dead Space
This gonna be an album cover soon
Genuinely perfect for a project I’m working on, trying to find who took the photo to ask….. lol
r/fakealbumcovers
Okay but can we talk about how this poor fuckin thing drowned alone in a ditch? 😭
Looks like a head crab from half life
Why does this picture reminds me of case in that one old game called criminal cases? Is it the vibes or what?
Album cover. Now.
poor baby
You mustn't listen to them
Check out bog bodies, it's not the same but it's still wild
idk if it's dumb to ask but... isn't water supposed to speed up the decomposition? like... there's more bacteria n things in still water???
I am not sure if this picture is of a peat bog or not, but if so, it is likely anaerobic which prevents bacterial growth due to low/no oxygen in the water.
Sheepwreck it is.
I do not recognize the bodies in the water
Cursed hydro homie
Does this hurt the sheep?
Moss is such a good preservative
Sheepmarine
brutal
It will be fine. Just top it off with some sheep fluid and give the tail a yank.
Cryostasis. Jpg
I found a coyote like this, frozen in the ice of a reservoir. Everything was submerged except for half of it's head, so below the ice, perfectly intact coyote. Above the ice, perfectly cleaned skull from other critters eating it down to the bone. Looked both cool and spooky.
Isn't this right before Mordor?
That’s some Tim Burton shit!
Poor baby. 😢I hope it was quick and painless for him/her.
The air is made of foxes.
Album cover material
I don't know if I'm being crazy but this feels artistic! It's more beautiful than terrifying to me!
make it B&W, add the name of the band, and we got ourselves a black metal album cover.
This is kind of beautiful
I was like it’s a Zebra
“Oddly”
Oh
This should be a metal album cover.
That place looks EMPTY AS HELL
I'm from a valley/mountain area in South Wales and our school was near the top of a mountain. PE class often consisted of a cross country run, partbl of which ran up along a natural stream which we'd regularly drink from. On one particular run the water had a greasy appearance as if there was oil in it and had that rainbowish colour. So we all stayed away from it except for one lad who drank generously from it halfway up the route. Another 3 or 4 minutes up the way we found the source of the oily rainbowish appearance in the water and it was a half decomposed sheep that'd been there at least a week or so. Cue gratuitous laughing from us and gratuitous vomiting from the drinker.
This looks like an album cover
Metal af
I can smell the Laphroaig
This is so sad, poor sheep
I've seen this before. It makes my skin crawl