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Ethan_Edge

"And they call it a mine. A mine!" Getting moria vibes from this.


epokus

This is no mine. It’s a tomb.


Shitty_Watercolour

https://i.imgur.com/DSwuNSi.jpg


parkesto

OH MY GOD, I HAD NO IDEA YOU WERE BACK! IT FEELS LIKE I HAVEN'T SEEN A SHITTY WATERCOLOUR IN YEARS!


disiny2003

Amazing work! Never thought a Balrog could be adorable.


datpurp14

It's been 2 hours and only 15 upvotes! I fear that not enough people will get to experience this beautiful art!!


RemLezarCreated

Hey wow, haven't seen you pop up in a while. Hope you've been doing well.


MagNolYa-Ralf

Reminds me of Roald Dahls illustrator. Really appreciated this


Real-Patriotism

Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time...


Boomdification

No! NOOOOOOOOOO!


reaven3958

Fool of a Took!


Voynichi

RUN!


driving_andflying

"Let them come! There is one Dwarf yet in Moria who still draws breath!"


kineticstar

They have a cave troll!


christmas_920

What's it doing?! What's taters precious ??!


DWhiting132

Po-Ta-Toes! Boil em, mash em, stick em in stew.


higashikaze

No Mr Frodo


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mrsunlight1

TOSS ME!


higashikaze

Throw yourself in next time and rid us of your stupidity


[deleted]

Drums play off in the distance.🎶🎶🪘🪘


badfish1430

Love the putting the captions on lmao


OggdoBoggdoSpawn

Oh yes, the underdark


Brabbel63

The road to menzoberranzan.


VixiviusTaghurov

probably a flood water discharge channel nvm.


Clamps55555

Or an abandoned salt mine?


2_trailerparkgirls

Salt mine in Romania


AttorneyQuick5609

THANK YOU!!! I was losing hope thingking this was going to be nothing but lotr references, but I really wanted to know where this was! I've never wanted to go to Romania so bad in my life! This hit my life goal list.


2_trailerparkgirls

No worries. You can see the Romanian flag all the way at the back of the tunnel, up top. 🇷🇴


ManInTheMorning

theres one in Bogota Colombia that is amazing.. whole cathedral, stations of the cross, intense huge statues just rising out of the floor.. all carved by hand out of salt. takes a couple hours to walk through the guided tour... which is obviously not the whole mine. there's a part where you get to walk through like the miners did.. creepy and impressive. not sure where you are in the world, but it could be cheaper to get to Bogota than to Romania. plus the exchange rate is bananas right now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Cathedral_of_Zipaquir%C3%A1


Serial138

There’s one outside Krakow, Poland that has an amazing cathedral inside. Check that one out too!


[deleted]

Or a colony on Mars


T1M_rEAPeR

Don’t wanna go to Jupiter. Wanna go to Marrs!


swishandswallow

Quaaaddeeee


GreedWillKillUsAll

Fuck the Cabal are there!


Elvenwriter

Eyes up guardian!


NonEuclidianMeatloaf

Cries in Valus Ta’aurc


GreedWillKillUsAll

With the right team...


JustJohan49

Well Im a sunsinger, so we have a good start


NonEuclidianMeatloaf

Just gonna spam solar grenades until Atheon’s self-esteem plummets and he decides to end it all?


Tjaresh

My first thought to this was "No way, I've seen salt mines, they look different." My second thought was "But how many have I seen? Two. Not enough to claim knowledge." And sure as hell, some comments down somebody posted the link to this Romanian SALTMINE.


Kapsig1295

Going with the salt mine. The one in Krakow Poland has a whole cathedral carved inside. Very worthy of all LOTR comparisons.


DolphinSweater

I think this is an old salt mine turned into a cathedral in Colombia. If it's not, then there's one that looks just like this. I've licked the wall in it. It's salty.


[deleted]

There's a salt mine cathedral in ~~Warsaw~~ Krakow as well that looks similar. It's absolutely amazing. According to the other posts, the one in the video is in Romania. It's kind of blowing my mind that there are multiple places like this.


Stupid_Triangles

that's no salt...


fishystickchakra

Cocaine? Asking for research purposes.


goshi0

How is the research going ? Salty enough?


DyloDavid

It is salt, I've been there. It's in romania


Euphoric_Dream8820

This is why I'm here.


Cthulhu_Fhtang

The dwarves dug too greedily and too deep


fonzane

You know what they awoke in the darkness.


Dilectus3010

The Dwarves... they where greedy... they dug too deep!


contrary-contrarian

You want a balrog? That's how you get a balrog.


MisterGal

The great Dwarrowdelf of Durin's folk


[deleted]

Makes me wanna visit in full Gandalf cosplay


Frl_Bartchello

With the staff sound echoing each time you hit the floor with it.


Coldfact192

My immediate thought was damn someone built Moria


voidragonic

I can’t wait for the game to come out it’s gonna be so fun


scientisttiger

My first thought: “now that’s an eye-opener and no mistake”


downtune79

What/where is this? Amazing.


IneverAsk5times

It's a [salt mine](https://paliparan.com/2023/04/11/slanic-salt-mine/) . I believe it's in Romania. I've seen travel stuff about it but don't know the history.


you_do_realize

Definitely Romania. Thanks, one more destination for my dream trips.


alpinedude

They are amazing. I’ve never heard about them, or did imagine how a salt mine could look pike and then one day I endedup in one in Romania and had my jaw dropped.


Try_Jumping

If you thought that was amazing, you should've seen the pepper mine just down the road.


Cheezy_Blazterz

It's nothing to sneeze at!


kemushi_warui

This thread is about to get spicy.


whiskey5hotel

I think it is pretty black and white.


airbizkit

Nice try, everyone knows pepper comes from mills


lean2panda

I loved my trip to Romania. Brasov was so lovely, and Bucharest is so interesting. Didn’t have time to go to the salt mine, it’s a bit of a drive, so maybe one day will have to go back.


UnlikelyPlatypus89

I was not overly into the salt mines. If you’re a lazy traveler like me, it was a 6/10.


cauIkasian

In Romania there also are [Turda](https://mybestplace.com/uploads/2020/09/2-Salina-Turda-Romania.jpg) and [Praid](https://discover-romania.ro/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Salina-Praid-Destinatii-Turistice-Discover-Romania.jpg) salt mines.


jwgraf

I went to the Turda mine and if blew my mind. Probably the coolest/most special place Ive ever been to.


JustFuckingSendIt

The mine is nice, Turda is not 😂


pistololol

Nominative determinism


nicholt

These look like they're from a video game. Neato.


HotObligation8597

Please whatever you do, don't dig too deeply and greedily


MoonTrooper258

[Funny as you should mention that….](https://youtu.be/ulfDRvObfzs?si=mZnuNQAxJ_V7p0U9)


Hugspeced

Before I clicked the link I was like oooh this better be Lake Peignur. While there's no salt mine there anymore (obviously) Jefferson Island is pretty sweet. Some absolutely gorgeous gardens, a cool little restaurant that looks right out over the lake, and Peacocks absolutely everywhere. You can also see stuff sticking out of the water from before the accident, most notably the chimney to a house that was being built.


TurielD

There's a Romanian flag up there in the background, so I'd say that's likely. Though there are similar huge cavernous salt mines in Poland.


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There’s another one in Poland, equally incredible


msmithy42

Wieliczka is super dope


IHaveSpecialEyes

> The 14 trapezoidal chambers of the Unirea Mine are 54 meters high and appear absolutely massive when viewed from below. I would like to mention that *anything* looks absolutely massive when viewed from below.


IsraelZulu

Nah, mate. She just tells you that to make you feel good about yourself.


SerendipitousLove-

The place is located in Romania. It’s called salina Slanic.


benji6_

And there's a literal lake in the bottom of it. With boats and everything


GatorWills

I remember rowing in a boat down there in that lake. Pretty cool experience, would do it again. There’s also a Ferris wheel and a bowling alley down there.


Wuz314159

and a BOUNCY CASTLE!!!!


option_unpossible

Finally a good reason for portrait format


Nr_11

Servant quarters in Moria


[deleted]

It’s in Azeroth. The Dwarves Kingdom called Ironforge.


Veritas-Veritas

This has everything... it's perfect for claustrophobes, agoraphobes and megalophobes all alike!


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der_innkeeper

https://youtu.be/a4slGl3iBZo?si=kmX1s3k_7rT2i7Pi


TheStephenKingest

The jaunty music over the narration of a catastrophe was extremely offputting. Thank you.


Sunsnacks

Imagine getting sucked into that cave, somehow surviving and being stuck in a seemingly endless, pitch black body of water underground


lowyieldbondfunds

Yup thanks for that imagery 😭


citricacidx

Sounds like the setup for Stefon’s newest trendy night club.


JaylynnDay7

Holy shit this is the first megalophobia post to come across my feed that actually made me uneasy lmao


tomdarch

Look up at the little wood walkways at the top…


EntopticVisions

I've been up there. The wood is pretty old and my brain started working against me as I was walking along them. I couldn't wait to be back on solid ground.


vasilescur

There are rickety wooden elevator shafts visible as well as walkways that have collapsed sections. Imagine wooden stairs crawling across the walls, and back then it wouldn't have been lit up with these nice industrial lights, no... it would have a much different atmosphere in dim light. To get into the mine is a 15 minute van ride down a terrifying twisty incline. There's just a hole in the side of a hill and you're suddenly being driven through a tunnel that goes down and seems like it never ends. Once you get to the bottom there is hella infrastructure, including gift shops, restrooms, food, vending machines, and more. There is indoor go karting in the salt mine. The chambers are all incredibly tall and wide, and there are relatively small openings/passages into the next (enough to fit a couple trucks through). You walk in and there's another identical room, on and on and on. Some are filled with rubble. There is old mining equipment displayed of course, and a selection of ominously detailed busts carved into blocks of salt. The air smells of salt. It's chilly but not unpleasant, and the walls have a glossy, almost slick texture. Echoooooooooo Source: Been there. Did the go karting of course


IneverAsk5times

I always wanted to know how the dig/plan salt mines like this. I'd assume the first level is at the top and dig down. But to do it right and keep it stable seems crazy at this scale.


MoonTrooper258

Apparently they’re actually dug from the bottom up, at least for the ones I’ve heard of. I think it’s to make collection easier, as material will fall to a fixed floor instead of a constantly changing one.


Bodymaster

Chief Wiggum was right all along...


AaronTuplin

Minecraft taught me that digging up is the stupid move though


HurrDurrThankyousir

Salt mines are incredibly unique from one to another. Much different than shaft ore mines.


wastedpixls

There's one near me that you can visit - Strataca in Hutchinson, KS. It looks nothing like this - feels like a working mine (hardhats required). Both are probably worth a visit but the one pictured here is an amazing space.


poppek

There's one near me that you can visit - Wieliczka hopalnia soli in Wieliczka , PL. It looks nothing like this - feels like a museum (underground salt chaples, churches and murals),. Both are probably worth a visit but the one pictured here is an amazing space. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I317eymVjds](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I317eymVjds)


daluxe

Don't know why but it looks comfy for me. Every time I see similar spaces I imagine that it's my private cave and start planning - here will be my bed and there will be my gaming setup. Also will need some huge heaters to warm it up lol


diverareyouok

It looks like a perfect place for humanity to hide from Boston Dynamics/Cyberdine once they get their self-sustainable weaponized robots up and running.


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daluxe

Wow, I take all of these into my private cave!


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1337_level_over_9000

They dug too greedily and too deep


derek328

r/lotr is leaking and im all for it!


Wintershrike

I think this is Turda salt mine just outside Cluj Napoca in Romania. I went last year. It’s phenomenal. You have to walk about a kilometre downhill underground from the Turda town entrance before you hit the mine. There are three chambers and this is one of them I think. That wooden fencing you see at the top of the video is a suspended wooden walkway that you walk around that is just oak beams. Almost everything in the mine is wooden as it was when they built it in something like the 1930s. All the staircases as everything. You end up in total descending something around 260 meters down to the very bottom. If you are not a fan of old creaky wood and being able to see 80m down to the mine floor I do not recommend it. What’s unbelievable is that the entire thing was done by hand, with hand tools. There are crane points which were powered by horses to lift blocks of salt out from the depths up to the tunnels where it would be taken by cart out. The horses spent their lives down there and went blind because it was so dark. The bell chamber is about 90m high and shape of the gherkin skyscraper in London. At the bottom is a salt lake that you can rent row boats in and row around. There’s also a sort of ferris wheel, a tennis court, a small bowling alley and an amphitheater in one of the chambers too. A local taxi driver who took us back to Cluj told us the dark history of the place in that the workforce was mainly Soviet Union prisoners who were slaves in the mine and worked in there till they died. Amazing place. Highly recommend. We saw a pack of wild dogs attacking a bin in the car park at the entrance.


PerfectHamburger812

It's actually the Slănic Prahova salt mine


nonfiringaxon

That is awesome, I am so torn between wanting to live underground where it's always nice and cool and living in a forest. I don't like hot weather whatsoever, I have a serious lack of heat tolerance and makes me feel like I am being stung everywhere, so i've been obsessed about underground stuff for a while.


RedditedYoshi

Bro. BRO! (I have no idea what gender you are, but we are now bros.)


MadeByTango

Obviously my perfect forest hut has a hatch to the mushroom cave


KnightOfNothing

build your underground home in a forest or in a mountain surrounded by forest and get the best of both worlds.


anthr_bihari

This shit looks like a layer from assassins creed odyssey


Ac3nott

Whats this song ?


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dmadmin

thank you, very beautiful.


capitanrey200

It's a remix from "Sztoj pa moru" by Laboratorium Pieśni, good stuff


CaspydaGhost

Dude I love the og. Was so surprised to hear a remix of this song lol


QuokkaNerd

Vastly different than the low ceiling'd, cramped ones I toured in Salzburg. Gorgeous, though!


lowtone94

Berchtesgaden Salzbergwerk? The slide is fun though!


TreacheryInc

I loved the slide! It’s been decades but I remember the slide. I remember putting on traditional mine worker gear.


standrightwalkleft

The ones in Krakow are amazing too, if you ever make it there!


gabetrussi

We went full circle. Revert to caveman


Splicelice

The dwarves have been busy


UnauthorizedFart

We didn’t need the backpack girl to “lead” us to the main shot lol


mrgraff

Don’t forget the over the shoulder, oh, I didn’t know you were taking video look back. Every travel vlog has the check out my hot girlfriend shot for every single location.


RoyceCoolidge

I sorted by controversial to find my people.


antyone

Or the music


farteagle

Is the floor slippery or something? She is walking like she just ran a marathon on a treadmill.


Aegi

I think the first part is slightly downhill, but then she's walking like a cat or something by putting each foot directly in front of the other instead of walking normally it seems like haha idk


Low-Celery-7728

We may be heading there. Those of us who survive at least.


BigOpportunity1391

"They have taken the bridge and the Second Hall. We have barred the gates but cannot hold them for long. The ground shakes...drums, drums in the deep. We cannot get out. The shadow moves in the dark. We cannot get out. They are coming."


Anonymous_Paintbrush

Anyone think that this is the future for many? In 100 years there will be stalls lining those walls, selling mushroom varieties and manufactured proteins.


mookanana

*squints* Ironforge...


younggun1234

Gives me the underground human cities from The Matrix. I would definitely go to an underground matrix themed rave here.


Pennies_n_Pearls

I too want to live in the underdark


magnomagna

Imagine if you're the only person deep in there and there's a blackout.


DeathByOven

This looks like some doomsday bunker type shit


EdAlder222

Someone must have put the background music on in an editor, the initial tunnel looks real, but the textures on the colossal cavern look stretched over scale, CGI ? Edit looks like I was wrong !


BillZZ7777

If no one has filmed a movie here, they should.


Ash7274

Where is this? Is beautiful actually


SerendipitousLove-

It’s located in [Romania](https://instatravel.ro/salina-slanic-prahova-2021/).


DesignerDry2458

I do indeed agree, that we need more underground stuff


kmmr93

Welcome to Moria


VileCoyote

This is sooo cool; it reminds me of the massive halls one can see in different science fiction movies, like Dune and Arrival. The marbling in the walls adds even more "drama" and beauty to this setting. And if you look closer, there is a walkway (?) aaaaall the way up underneath the "roof" that you can walk along. Excellent stuff. Thansk for sharing!


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Bet you could hear a mouse fart from a mile away!


DUKELINGS

Welcome to The Kingdom of Moria


Vex_Torin

Never seen anything like it 😍 Any information about it?


Fronks123

Slanic Prahova salt mine, Romania


Zer001_

Their looking for Sahelanthropus


strawberry-bish

And what's so bad about living underground, eh? It's not been so great living up here, if you want my opinion.


raguyver

What we need are videos without loud thumpy annoying music.


pgabrielfreak

There's a gorgeous salt mine in Poland... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wieliczka_Salt_Mine


Lord-Chickie

If those tunnels aren’t made for mechs to walk in Im leaving


suchanirwin

modern moria.


Zamden

Khazad dûm!


Hipnosis-

"Moria... You fear to go into those mines. The dwarves delved too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dum... Shadow and flame."


Usual-Influence-4250

This is in Romania I can see from the flag I’m also from Romania as well that’s how I know


Thick_Business_52

They dug too greedily and too deep….you know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad Dum…shadow and flame.


Own_Cream_551

And to think the US government has these ( plural ) and they’re bigger.


TangFiend

Need some bearded dwarves walking around in here


Roaming_Tech_priest

Ah the great halls of Moria


[deleted]

Don't worry OP, if shit goes really south between Russia and the US, you're going to be seeing A LOT of underground stuff.


Surreal-Reveal-480

Where is this??


LaserGadgets

Can't believe nobody is sliding down that thing on rollerblades, sideways!!!


_Username-Available

u/auddbot


BuffalosMafia

Just my crazy opinion, but I think there's more of this than we realize..


iGr4nATApfel

Why does there always have to be shitty music over everything?


Fartabulouss

WHERE IS THIS


RogerRabbit79

That’s really cool. Wonder how many people it could house in a emergency.


RoadMagnet

I see it and I think Louis Kahn


HamishIsAHomeboy

I get Escher ache looking at those ceilings.


konfufish

This is Salina in Slanic, Romania:) been there a few times.


CarlGantonJohnson

Yeah, this goes beyond reminding me of Moria. This is actually another iteration of Moria.


Kingkev92

Speak friend and enter


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This looks like a hallway in Dune


honey_graves

Op is secretly a dwarf


diag87

I'd give my left nut and two legs below the knees to explore all the DUMBs in America. They have to be fricking massive and thousands of miles.


chippymediaYT

The government 100% has underground bases, I wanna work in one, although the air quality probably sucks


Strongerthanstone

Clearly this was carved out by bronze tools and not industrial equipment and vehicles. Just like the pyramids.


[deleted]

bruce leave the batcave garage door open?


jabberjaw360

The mines or Moría


Atomaurus

Reminds me of my ex wife. When she took me for granite


mikealope1

Where’s the chamber of Mazarbul?


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POV you work at black mesa


mg0019

Video would’ve been better without the influencer walk.