{"id":151,"date":"2017-11-27T18:44:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T01:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thereandbackagain\/?page_id=151"},"modified":"2017-12-09T03:39:27","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T10:39:27","slug":"p-s-eagles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thereandbackagain\/p-s-eagles\/","title":{"rendered":"P.S. Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Aside<\/h2>\n<p>A common critique of the Lord of the Rings is that the Great Eagles of Manw\u00eb\u00a0are a\u00a0deus ex machina; they rescue Frodo and Sam from imminent demise on the slopes of Mount Doom after the ring is destroyed, thus why couldn&#8217;t they fly them the entire way there, eliminating the need for a 6 month through-hike of Middle Earth?<\/p>\n<p>We will not comment on the sides of this debate. Instead, we created a Euclidean path outlining the hypothetical least cost path if flying <em>were<\/em> an option (Figure 5.1).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-205 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thereandbackagain\/files\/2017\/12\/0PPOv7r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"5000\" height=\"3864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thereandbackagain\/files\/2017\/12\/0PPOv7r.jpg 5000w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thereandbackagain\/files\/2017\/12\/0PPOv7r-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thereandbackagain\/files\/2017\/12\/0PPOv7r-768x594.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thereandbackagain\/files\/2017\/12\/0PPOv7r-1024x791.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 5000px) 100vw, 5000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Figure 5.1<\/strong> The route from the Shire, to Rivendell, to High Pass, then flying on the backs of the eagles following a Euclidean path to Mordor.<\/p>\n<p>If the Fellowship could call on the Eagles to fly them to Mordor (once they hiked to High Pass) then at an eagle&#8217;s flying speed of 50 km\/hr, it would take Frodo a mere ten hours to get there and destroy the ring!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aside A common critique of the Lord of the Rings is that the Great Eagles of Manw\u00eb\u00a0are a\u00a0deus ex machina; they rescue Frodo and Sam from imminent demise on the slopes of Mount Doom after the ring is destroyed, thus why couldn&#8217;t they fly them the entire way there, eliminating the need for a 6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30243,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-151","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thereandbackagain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thereandbackagain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thereandbackagain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thereandbackagain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30243"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thereandbackagain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thereandbackagain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thereandbackagain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151\/revisions\/293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/thereandbackagain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}