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This Middle-Earth Fractal Remix Rules Them All

We're taking the hobbits to (fractal) Isengard.
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Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky. Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die. One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne/In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them/One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.

This short summary of the situation when we first come across our hobbit buddies at the beginning of The Lord of the Rings is well and good, but we can't help but wonder what would happen if they visited fractal craftsman Julius Horsthuis' version of Middle-Earth. He's dubbed it "Minas Mandel" after the mesmerizing 3D shapes, Mandelbulbs, that rule his imagination. If you explore his twisted reality in the video below for long enough, it's easy to imagine a distorted Legolas taking the hobbits to Isengard (gard gard gard) by warping through walls, or Frodo, Sam, and Gollum twisting into infinity to escape Shelob's lair. Pick your hallucination, the willing mind can see nearly anything in Horsthuis' entrancing video, from the Mines of Moria to the forest of Lothlórien.

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