Last night my son chose to watch the movie Transformers, the 2007 original one that Michael Bay directed. He had never seen anything Transformers, and I only vaguely remembered the movie.But, Transformers is going to be an interesting choice and one I will pay attention to given Optimus Prime and some symbols we explored there. Further, I mentioned this mapping of individuals back to the Mount of Transfiguration, and Transfiguration and Transformation mean the same thing.In any case, the movie, besides having no real plot and involving just lot so things blowing up, didn't disappoint on the symbols.The concept of a Frozen Man or Iceman has been associated with Pharazon and this notion of Numenor being buried under ice for awhile now. In the movie, Megatron, the leader of the Decepticons, had been, go figure, buried under ice since about 10,000 BC (10,000 being a number that brings the date very close to Daymon's own timeline with respect to the Numenorean fall). This happened as a result of his quest to obtain the All Spark. At this point, I realized we had a link via the name Megatron between the Frozen Man/ Pharazon and Meglin/ Maeglin. In earlier comments, I had linked Pharazon to Meglin via "The Meg", which features the Megalodon. So we had these two Megas serving as connection points.The top secret project that kept the discovery of Megatron under wraps was literally called "Project Ice Man".Further, one of the main MacGuffins of the story was a pair of magical spectacles. These spectacles acted as a key that would allow someone to find the All Spark. The All Spark was some kind of magical cube that granted life, which of course also has Numenorean undertones as to why someone would want it (and thus Megatron's quest for it, and subsequent Icing). We've also seen cube symbolism before in the form of the Tesseract, and even in the first part of that name, with Tess/ Tessa.Interestingly, though, in hearing All Spark, I thought I should reverse engineer that into Elvish. I was confident that I had seen Spark recently somewhere while searching there, so I was curious. I had, and it links right back to the word "Tin". Tin, in Elvish, means "spark, sparkle, twinkle of stars", etc. I thought it was interesting given all of your tin references recently.Also, deception/ deceive has also come up, and here we had Megatron leading a group whose name etymologically links to Deception (Decepticons) opposing Optimus Prime.Here is the brief scene in which they discover frozen Megatron - it is short, but you can even just skip to the 1 minute mark and watch the last 30 seconds or so:
Maeglin again. I found that annoying because for whatever reason, I just can't seem to hold in my mind who the hell Maeglin is. A bad guy from Tolkien, described by Bill as being fond of spiders, and that's all I've got. Man or Elf? What exactly did he do? No idea. Later, when I'm feeling less annoyed, I'll look him up yet again and refresh my memory. This is uncharacteristic of me. Either Maeglin is a uniquely boring character or I've got some sort of mental block stopping me from thinking about him. I get so sick and tired of all this Tolkien stuff sometimes.
After reading the comment, I checked AC's latest post. It included the following embedded tweet, which caught my eye because the user's name is Megatron.
🇻🇪 Maduro: "Who's the one that bombs their neighbouring countries every day, Iran?
— Megatron (@Megatron_ron) August 9, 2025
No. The Zionist state led by Netanyahu."
The Trump administration put a $50 million bounty on his head after this. pic.twitter.com/vUHYlSqQg3
I know virtually nothing about the Transformers, and the name Megatron wouldn't have meant a thing to me if I hadn't just read Bill's comment about that particular character. I'm not sure what relevance the content of the tweet might have, but it makes me think of "You Always Want to Bomb the Middle East," from "Seals, the Blue Flamingo, and the Multidimensional Dumpster Phoenix."
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The Transformers was my favourite cartoon in about 1990, I learned English by watching it even before I had English in school. Megatron is featured in this short clip with Orson Welles (as the voice of Unicron)
https://youtu.be/0DPW44-I3n4?si=A8_JmTVkbict_378
You're not alone, this stuff wears on me too. The similarities between so many names doesn't help.
Bill putting Pharazon and Maeglin together directly didn't sit well with me from the start. Words of the Faithful provides the key: Maeglin became one of the Nazgul, which is mutually exclusive with Pharazon. That in mind, the "Maglodan" from a while back solely looked like a nod to Maglor to me. If there's anything deeper to it, I don't know.
All I can say about that tweet is Iran still has some, let's say, glowing bombs in reserve. With any luck, certain larger countries will deal with them.
Huh. Maglor. Another name to look up.
To jog your memory a little: https://narrowdesert.blogspot.com/2025/06/maglodan-immigrant-song-and-page-of.html
Playing Bill's Eldamo game here:
meg = a mole (the animal)
at- = a second time, again, re-
ron = solid, tangible, firm
Putting it together, you get a reincarnated mole.
The word "mole" has only appeared once on this blog so far, quoting James Taylor's "Down in a Hole" from the album New Moon Shine.
https://narrowdesert.blogspot.com/2020/11/coming-up-for-air.html
The context of that post -- losing patience with the sync fairies for focusing on subjects I'm sick to death of -- also fits the context of the present post pretty well.
The similarity of Megatron to Metatron (post-translation name of Enoch in Hebrew literature) may also be relevant.
The all spark thing is a cube in the movie, right? Metatron's cube.
The name Megatron was probably originally just mega combined with tron from electronics. But later they do Latinize it as Megatronus which implies Greek origin, mega thronus, big throne.
Maeglin is just some dude, Elf btw, who was promised to marry some chick he doesn't get to marry. Doesn't map with Transformers since they don't marry.
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