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one of my favorite lotr facts is that gondorians speak sindarin as a first language and yet when faramir was talking to frodo and sam about cirith ungol he was like “we don’t know what’s in there.” like faramir. cirith ungol is sindarin for “pass of the spider.” do the math

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Don’t forget that Frodo also speaks Sindarin, which makes this even worse.

Faramir: Hey, don’t go up the Spider Stairs.

Frodo: Why? What’s up the Spider Stairs?

Faramir: We don’t know, Frodo. We just don’t know.

But, to be fair, both of them live in a world where for seven thousand years people have been going around sticking names on things, so they automatically assume that all the names are out of date. 

Frodo’s local pub is called the Green Dragon.  His life has not prepared him for a situation where you go up the Spider Stairs and there really is a honking great big spider up there. 

#The house next door to mine is called ‘Cobwebs’#I don’t know why#but I don’t think it’s owned by arachnids

Assuming lack-of-spiders like this is exactly what got Frodo almost-eaten by Shelob. 

#I for one ALWAYS assume Spiders #and I have not once been attacked by a primordial spawn of ungoliant and then kidnapped by orcs #anyway if you don’t want to live your life in Spider-fueled paranoia like me for some reason #there’s a quick test you can do #is the NEXT house down owned by Sauron? If so this dramatically increases probability of Spiders – @thepioden