{"id":269522,"date":"2020-07-20T14:03:56","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T09:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/?p=269522"},"modified":"2020-07-20T14:03:56","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T09:03:56","slug":"is-lord-of-the-rings-middle-earth-really-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/is-lord-of-the-rings-middle-earth-really-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Lord of the Rings’ Middle-Earth Really in Pakistan?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Great news for Lord of the Rings<\/em><\/strong> fans in Pakistan. It seems that instead of New Zealand, JRR Tolkien’s Middle-earth\u00a0<\/em>might have been in Pakistan all along!<\/p>\n

The Indo-Pak subcontinent is the source of many cultural gems, but who would’ve thought a region in Pakistan shared similarities with a famous fantasy realm too.<\/p>\n

Recently, an Iranian Tolkienologist discovered mind-boggling similarities between Pakistan’s topography and LOTR’s map of Middle-earth. Read on to find out why that is!<\/p>\n

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Pakistan’s Indus River is just like Anduin, The great River of Middle-earth
Image Courtesy of Mohammad Reza Kamali<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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We always thought Middle-earth would be somewhere in New Zealand since that’s where Peter Jackson shot his movies. Apparently, its a lot closer to home.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What place on earth resembles Tolkien’s map of Middle-earth?<\/h3>\n

According to J.R.R. Tolkien himself:<\/p>\n

“The Shire is based on rural England, and not on any other country in the world, … the action of the story takes place in the North-West of ‘Middle-earth<\/em>‘, equivalent in latitude to the coastlands of Europe and the north shores of the Mediterranean.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now an Iranian Tolkienologist, Mohammad Reza Kamali has discovered that the mountains, rivers, and islands of Middle-earth look like the topography of present-day Pakistan.<\/p>\n

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Mohammad Reza Kamali points out how Pakistan’s Tarbela Dam on the Indus river looks like ‘Cair Andros<\/em>‘, the ship-shaped island in the Anduin river.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mohammad Reza Kamali points out Middle-earth’s non-European topography.<\/p>\n

“I found that maybe there are real lands [that] could have inspired Professor Tolkien, and some of them are not in Europe.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Pakistan’s Himalyan mountain ranges with the circle of Piamer sure look like Mordor and the land of Sauron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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In his article on Arda.ir<\/a>, the website of the Persian Tolkien Society, Reza Kamali revealed how one look at Pakistan’s map of the Himalayan mountain ranges, and Paimer hit him with a wave of deja-vu because he’s seen that map before.<\/p>\n

“I had seen that map before, … This is of course Mordor, the land of Sauron and the dark powers of Middle-earth,”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This man’s years of research is on point, as he breaks down the mountains in Pakistan’s north, to the topography of the Indus River.<\/p>\n

“The Himalayas transform into Ephel Duath, the Mountains of Shadow; and the Tian Shan into Ered Lithui, the Ash Mountains. And the circle-shaped Pamirs “are the same shape and in exactly the same corner as the Ud\u00fbn of Mordor, where Frodo and Sam originally tried getting into Mordor, via the Black Gate.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Whoa! Mordor is in Pakistan? Consider us intrigued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Great news for Lord of the Rings fans in Pakistan. It seems that instead of New Zealand, JRR Tolkien’s Middle-earth\u00a0might have been in Pakistan all along! The Indo-Pak subcontinent is the source of many cultural gems, but who would’ve thought a region in Pakistan shared similarities with a famous fantasy realm too. Recently, an Iranian Tolkienologist discovered mind-boggling similarities between […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":269553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1298,2199,2368,2373,1297],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-269522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-culture","8":"category-featured","9":"category-hollywood","10":"category-rumor","11":"category-tv-movies-music"},"wps_subtitle":"You will be surprised!","img_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Middle-earth-2-364x205.jpg",364,205,true],"medium":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Middle-earth-2-758x424.jpg",758,424,true],"full":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Middle-earth-2.jpg",1000,560,false]},"author_name":"Ummara Sheraz","categories_name":["Culture","Featured","Hollywood","Rumor","TV & Film"],"title_text":"Is Lord of the Rings\u2019 Middle-Earth Really in Pakistan?","related_stories":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?filter&per_page=4&categories=1298,2199,2368,2373,1297&exclude=269522","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269522"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=269522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}