re: #323 klys

When Frodo and Sam are escaping Mount Doom at the end of Return of the King? Yeah, my husband got real upset with me the last time we watched it because I was snarking about the whole temperature aspect.

/to be fair, the end of that movie has the capability of reopening some emotional scars and had that night, so I was trying to distract myself.

Having stood within 20 yards of VERY slowly flowing lava on The Big Island, I can only imagine how hot it would have been in a chamber above a giant pool of very liquid (and thus much hotter) lava.

As a side note, watching that lava flowing was one of the coolest things I’ve ever experienced. Lava at that temperature is some truly weird shit.