If the Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen) had already known at the time: On Tikkok, an absurd experiment shows what happens if a nerd has too much time. (Image source: Tikok/TSJ_electronics/New Line Cinema)
There are many ways to express his love for the Lord of the Rings: You can get an elbet tattoo, watch the films in Extended Cut every year or collect the books in every existing edition.
But the Tikok user TSJ_electronics had another idea: Why not add the entire master of the rings with letters?
The bad news: You not only need a lot of patience, but also a surprisingly large budget.
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As in all of his videos, the TikKer started with a scientific approach. He opened a can of the US spaghettios and counted 1,182 letters. That alone is a performance for which Galadriel should shave his feet.
But he went even further: With the help of a script, he calculated how many letters the English edition of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy includes overall – 2,261,081 characters.
Then true mathematics began: to put the entire work from letters noodles, according to him, they would be needed 8.795 dose spaghettios. After its calculation, this would be a total price of $ 12,225, i.e. around 11,239 dollars.
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In the end there is a lot of pasta left
Based on mean values, someone would still have too much time and money in the end 8.134.609 unnecessary pasta Lying around – enough for a considerable amount of soups or a lifelong fear of pasta in letters.
The Tikok community was still enthusiastic: in the three years since the first publication 2022, the video collected 733,000 likes and over 5.2 million calle in the app. It is a clip off a ten -part seriesin which TSJ_electronics writes even more known literary works (at least theoretically) with letters noodles.
So if you have 11,239 dollars left, feel a deep need for useless nerdtum and have enough space for almost 9,000 cans of letters, then nothing will be in the way of your very personal pasta.
But maybe you'd better start something else with your time, for example an apprenticeship as a goldsmith.
