Last week, Ben and I re-watched the Lord of the Rings trilogy. He'd gotten them for me for xmas on Blu-Ray. (I already own the extended editions on DVD. Of course. Duh.)
Holy god, do I love those movies.
But one scene in particular grabbed my attention, because I realized I'd lived it when we were in Japan in October. It was this:
In the Kyoto area, there is this super amazingly wondrous Shinto shrine complex called Fushimi-Inari Taisha. It has this really cool hiking trail lined with hundreds? thousands? of torii gates (the red gates that adorn the entrance to Shinto shrines). Here's a couple of pictures from our visit:
Well. Let me tell you. Japan does NOT mess around when it comes to spiders. There were ENORMOUS spiders anyplace remotely gardenish, this place included. Huge webs spanning multiple feet. Between the gates. In the corners of the gates. Across the tops of the gates. ALL AROUND US.
We began to call it Shelob Row because I felt exactly like Frodo in that picture above, except maybe more terrified because I knew the dangers that awaited me. *shudders* So creepy. Interestingly enough, we were the only ones who seemed to be bothered by the spiders. All the Japanese tourists just sailed right by, practically brushing right through the webs, without a care in the world.
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