Google Plays Hobbit Joke On Map Users
4:45pm UK, Thursday December 22, 2011
Google has delivered another of its famous 'Easter egg' pranks - this time in the form of a Hobbit-related joke on its maps.
Users who ask for walking directions from the Shire, where the Hobbits live in J.R.R. Tolkien's novels, to Mordor, home of Sauron, are warned: "Use caution - one does not simply walk into Mordor."The line is spoken by Boromir in The Lord of the Rings and quickly spread around the internet some years ago, adapted in various in-joke pictures.
The joke comes as the trailer for the new film adaptation of The Hobbit is launched, with the film due to be released next year.
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