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| title = Cirith Ungol | | title = Cirith Ungol | ||
| image = cirith_ungol.png | | image = cirith_ungol.png | ||
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| titletext = My all-time favorite example of syntactic ambiguity comes from Wikipedia: 'Charlotte's Web is a children's novel by American author E. B. White, about a pig named Wilbur who is saved from being slaughtered by an intelligent spider named Charlotte.' | | titletext = My all-time favorite example of syntactic ambiguity comes from Wikipedia: 'Charlotte's Web is a children's novel by American author E. B. White, about a pig named Wilbur who is saved from being slaughtered by an intelligent spider named Charlotte.' | ||
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− | ==Explanation== | + | == Explanation == |
− | + | The comic here is a mash up between the ''Lord of the Rings'' trilogy and the novel ''Charlotte's Web''. | |
− | The title | + | The title Cirith Ungol is a reference to ''Lord of the Rings'' where Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee were led to Cirith Ungol by Gollum to the lair of the ancient spider Shelob. |
− | And therefore in this comic, Frodo (by himself | + | And therefore in this comic, Frodo (by himself) is being led into the lair of the spider, Charlotte. We can tell by the "Some Pig" writing in the spider web on the lower right hand corner which is a direct reference to the story of ''Charlotte's Web'', in which a spider named Charlotte writes the very same text in her web. |
− | + | ===Title text=== | |
+ | Syntactic ambiguity is a property of sentences which may be reasonably interpreted in more than one way, or reasonably interpreted to mean more than one thing. This allows us to derive two different meanings from the same sentence. | ||
− | The second part of the title text | + | The second part of the quote in the title text, taken from Wikipedia, can be logically interpreted in either of the following ways: |
− | *Charlotte the spider saves Wilbur from slaughter | + | * Charlotte the spider saves Wilbur from slaughter, or |
− | *Charlotte the spider attempts to slaughter Wilbur, but he is saved. | + | * Charlotte the spider attempts to slaughter Wilbur, but he is saved |
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+ | == Trivia == | ||
+ | * This comic caused a minor edit war on Wikipedia's [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charlotte%27s_Web&diff=504553453&oldid=504551496 Charlotte's Web] article. | ||
== Transcript == | == Transcript == | ||
− | + | [A character in a long flowing robe holds up the phial of galadriel in one hand; the One Ring is dangling from a necklace in the other. The scene is a cave, profuse with spiderwebs, bones hanging in some of them. On one of the webs are words, presumably written by the spider.] | |
− | + | SOME PIG | |
− | + | {{Comic discussion}} | |
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[[Category:LOTR]] | [[Category:LOTR]] | ||
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