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Mordor is a [[Dark Is Evil|black]] and bleak type of [[Shadowland]]. [[Cue the Sun|The sun]] is always hidden behind [[Grave Clouds|endless dark storm clouds]]. What little vegetation there is (if any) will be withered and rotting or mutated into an "evil" variety that's covered in sharp thorns and/or [[When Trees Attack|liable to eat people]]. [[Swamps Are Evil|Poisonous marshes and swampland]] are also quite common. Expect [[Lethal Lava Land|frequent volcanoes]] [[Hailfire Peaks|and/or]] [[Evil Is Deathly Cold|ice]] [[Slippy
In a Fantasy Setting, [[Mordor]] is often this way because the evil of the [[Big Bad]] who rules the place [[Fisher King|radiates throughout the land]], or because his [[Black Magic]] acts as a [[Curse]] on it. Often, this land was once a beautiful place before the [[Big Bad]] got hold of it, and it's presented as a stark example of what could happen to the hero's world should he or she fail in stopping the [[Big Bad]]. Should the [[Big Bad]] be defeated and the [[Fisher King|good king restored]], often [[Cue the Sun|the skies will clear up]] and [[Fertile Feet|the birds and bees and flowers]] [[No Ontological Inertia|will return at warp speed]].
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** [[Stephen King]] nicely noted its [[Eldritch Location]] qualities in the short story "I Am the Doorway":
{{quote| ''And that was Venus. Nothing but nothing--except it scared me. It was like circling a haunted house in deep space. I was scared gutless until we got out of there. I think if our rockets hadn't gone off, I would've cut my throat on the way down. It's not like the moon. The moon is desolate but somehow antiseptic. That world we saw is utterly unlike anything anyone has ever seen. Maybe it's a good thing that cloud cover is there. It was like a skull that's been picked clean--that's the closest I can get.''}}
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* Bouvet Island is the most isolated piece of land on earth--1000 miles north of Antarctica and 1500 miles from South Africa. It's also buffeted by frigid hurricane-force winds, its landscape consists of snow and crags...[[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|and it stinks of penguin and seal feces]]. Smack in the middle of the South Atlantic with only chartered boat transport available, it's sort of a holy grail for adventure tourists who want to go ''everywhere''...but that's about the only reason to go there.
* Russians sometimes like to call their country Mordor jokingly - the environment and living there can be quite nasty, [[Soviet Russia|plus don't forget it was considered an Evil Empire not so long ago]].
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