Provide Your Head to Sauron {Mordor Picture Thread}

[The Good Hunter]

@Burnt Toast That is brilliant! And your friend did a marvelous job as well!

[Zôrzimril]

Right, so I'm a minion now . . . I suppose I should provide the traditional sacrificial head to Sauron.

I don't have any pictures from 2002 - when I joined - on my computer right now, but I'll be brave and share some if ever I find any. I DO, however, have some amazing pics from 2012 and 2013 to share.

In 2012, I found out I was going to be a Cottage Maia with one @Burnt Toast. It just so happened he was going to be in Chicago (where I live) soon after we started working together to bring a bit of insanity to the Cottage, so here is a photo from that first meet:

And then in 2013, @Dincairwen and Le Toast came to stay with me in Chicago. We adventured around the city and stopped in a couple spots for some epic photoshoots:

And here's a more recent one of me where I'm not climbing on public property:

[Burnt Toast]

Yess! @Tarawen this makes me so happy! Also I'm so proud of you for all the work you did re-sizing the images in a separate program first! This was a great time. <3

[Winddancer]

I think we need to persuade Cair to join us now..

[Zôrzimril]

Haha @Burnt Toast why thank you. It was an immense effort to resize the pictures in my state of extreme sleepiness.

Fully agreed, @Winddancer! @Dincairwen, you hear that?

[Burnt Toast]

Yes, I believe that it was XD

Ooh... Dincairwen... One of us. One of us. One of us.

[Dincairwen]

@Tarawen Aww, yeah! I love those pictures. That was a fun weekend with you and @Burnt Toast.

Is it sharing a picture I'm joining in on? I can do that! I had to wait for my computer to sort all 7000+ of my pictures by date taken so I could find an old one easily.

Here is one of the first pictures I posted on the plaza. Not sure if from 2004 when I joined, but definitely 2005 at least.



And within the last year. Pre-quarantine, when I still cared about my appearance.

[Zôrzimril]

@Dincairwen - don't be coy. You know what we REALLY want!

These pictures shall appease us for now. Your hair looks amazing in the most recent one! Thank you for providing such a well-coiffed head to Sauron.

[Lúthien Tinúviel]

Oh boy, just now seeing this.

I don't have many pictures of me from those days due to nobody in my family having smartphones (or even cellphones for that matter ), or digital cameras, but I joined the Plaza in March 2009. This is me in October of 2008:


Aaaand this is me about two weeks ago, looking far more alive:

[Burnt Toast]

@Dincairwen Yes... appeased for now. And Tara's right-- those locks are perfect. Wouldn't want some.. toasty fire to ruin them...

@Lúthien Tinúviel I love the short hair look!

[Glitterati_Goblin]

Whelp, this is @Moriel and I like.... two years ago? I was gonna post these truly horrible Halloween photos I have of us as Glinda and Elphaba from when we were teenagers back in 07’, but I figured it would be mean without asking.

Also, yes, I am actually that much shorter.

[Nessila]

Awwwww these pictures are awesome. Volgavia you seriously have not aged a bit!

Great plaza get together pics. Sauron appreciates your heads laid bare before him. Now he knows who to execute.

Are people uploading their pictures to photobucket first and then put the link in with the image button? I haven't figured out how to post a picture yet...

[Winddancer]

@Nessila Yep, or https://imgbb.com/ I use that one, super easy and kinda forgot photobucket password :P

[Burnt Toast]

@Glitterati_Goblin Yesss! Also, I hope this Halloween photo surfaces...

@Nessila -- yeah, the site Windy posted gives you the links under BBCodes, and you can just copy them right into your posts.

[Boromir88]

As one of @Tarawen 's recent captions in the Rohan caption contest reminded me...a few years ago on one of my trips to Canada. I found a long lost brother sitting on a bench.

Also, it appears as Scar is about to fall, my pride has fallen. To provide my head to Sauron, you will have to accept my awkward summer tan-lines:

[Winddancer]

I was gonna recommend you see an optician until I saw the second pic @Boromir88 :P

[Boromir88]

@Winddancer I have another of the same trip where you can see it even more that there is nothing wrong with my eye sight. :P But you'll have to go to the Bifrost LGBTQIA+ thread to see that one.

[Winddancer]

Looks good to me! Green looks great on you! :P (And I was talking about the bug-eyedness :P)

[Zôrzimril]

Well look at all these beautiful heads for Sauron!

@Boromir88 I am glad the winning caption reminded you of this most excellent photo.

@Glitterati_Goblin I am highly jealous of your proximity to Moriel! Welcome, by the way!!

@Lúthien Tinúviel - I remember that older photo of you! Love your short hair now!

I realized that I forgot to share another of my pictures from @Burnt Toast and @Dincairwen's visit, and got way too lazy to resize it till now. So here it is - the requisite reflections in the Bean selfie:

[Thalionwen Hunigfolm]

As I am a Minion now, here is my head You're all so cute and Moriel, I stand by my assertion that you are, in point of fact, an elevated life form, not a run of the mill human

[Zôrzimril]

YESSS @Thalionwen welcome and thank you for providing your head to Sauron. Inquiring minds must know: where did you acquire your amazing sweater?? I must have one for winter.

[Thalionwen Hunigfolm]

@Tarawen I wish I had a place to send you for a sweater like that one, but it was handmade at our local library's knitting club and I won it in a raffle there It is absolutely my most favorite article of clothing because I know how much time must have gone into making it!!!!

[The Good Hunter]

You're all so cool and awesome! I wish I could be as cool and awesome as you all.

[Glitterati_Goblin]

WHELP @Moriel decided it was a-ok to share the Halloween photos from ‘07 with her early forays into stage make-up as Elphaba and my deciding curlers and a corset were totally enough to make me Glinda despite not looking like her at all.

[Zôrzimril]

@Thalionwen that is hands-down the BEST sweater origin story I've ever heard. I will have to go to my local library more often in the hopes that there are sweaters being raffled in future

@Frostbite what are you saying, you are the coolest one of us all!

@Glitterati_Goblin and @Moriel this is amazing and I am glad that this gem has now been shared with the world!

[Burnt Toast]

@Tarawen Yes, the bean photo! Look at those young 'uns!

@Thalionwen One of us. One of us. Lovely photo!

@Glitterati_Goblin YESSS. Profesh.


Okay, since I haven't offered my head to Sauron since becoming a minion, here's a couple from right after my workout today, woo!



This last one is especially important because you can see all my silly TOAST lines. I went on a run, paddle boating, and then kayaking in one day, and no matter how much sunscreen I apply, this partially Irish blooded creetur just burns. I thought the stomach burn was pretty hilarious.

It showed up first as two dashes and a mouth, and I had a literal face across my belly button. It's still kinda there.



Okay these photos are huge, and after fighting with various resizing sites and making a mess for the last half hour, I've decided I'm sorry, but you're all subjected to these large photos. Enjoy!

[Glitterati_Goblin]

@Burnt Toast I want to poke the toast so much, but I am behaving. But it’s HARD, ok.

[Burnt Toast]

@Glitterati_Goblin Always poke the toast. That's my secret.

[Idesinholde]

Thanks Moriel I’ll tell him he’s not forgotten! What beautiful mountains; can I ask where you were?

Frostbite - Looks warm! I can’t imagine the stamina to run in scorching sun!
Winddancer - awe thanks! Bet yours is pretty lovely too!
Burnt Toast: I love the likeness of you and the clown; well done!
Silmare - Those pictures crack me up; ya’ll are as crazy as I’d expect. Looks like you has lots of fun!
Dincairwen - Looking good; ah the time before PJ’s and sweats all day.

Glitterati_Goblin - Loving the impression of the caribou!

Thalionwen - Loving the braid; can I say you look a little like Elsa? ( its a compliment!)

[Zôrzimril]

@Burnt Toast - IDK how you manage to be so photogenic after a workout! And I hope your sunburn healed nicely into a funky ab-contour-tan.

@Idesinholde - bahaha glad reality met your expectations. We did indeed have a good time!

[The Black Serpent]

Here's my head to Sauron.

This one is from 5-6 years back when on a vacation.



Minion and proud!

[Winddancer]

Welcome back Fenrir! :D Great pics!

[The Black Serpent]

Thanks @Winddancer ! Btw I joined plaza during the 2004 Plaza Olympics. So back then we at Morannon garrison got busy creating obstacles for runners from all kingdoms. Fun times.

Do you remember Vinyatur and Mandallah from back then?

[Winddancer]

Of course I do! What was your plaza name back then as I ran the Mordor Olympics (though dont know if I did the 2004 ones) in 2003.

[The Black Serpent]

It was darkprince1 back then. Hmm it could have been the 2003 Olympics then cause you directed us in creating the Obstacles at Morannon.

Also, Windy was my first plaza crush in 2003 lol

[Winddancer]

Haaa really!? Yea darkprince1 sounds way more familiar than Fenrir! Though I like the new Fenrir name :D Very wolfish :P And I have blocked most of the Olympics, it was such hard work to get the minions to join anything lol :P

[The Good Hunter]

This is a PSA (Public Sauron Announcement). Please be on the look out for a blue haired bear, he is considered weird and extremely silly. You have been warned

[Taethowen]

Congrats on finally getting your blue back!

[Winddancer]

SHOW YOUR COSTUMES!

As the bold letters says, show us your costumes!

This is me a few years ago and you better know who I am dressed up as! (This wasn't for Halloween btw, Comic Con)

[Hoglorfen]

Costume? I'll give you costume..!

No, this is how I actually look. Blurry because the photographer snaga was trembling in fear.