Location: Great Dome
Date: 2001.12.17
On a snowy morning during Fall finals, at the beginning of the week that the first Lord Of The Rings movie was to be released, a "gold" ring with red Elvish script appeared around the Great Dome.
As in JRR Tolkien's novel, the "ring" was inscribed with text that translates to:
Gandalf said about the text, "The letters are Elvish, of an ancient mode, but the language is that of Mordor, which I will not utter here."
The hackers were apparently not completely successful, for neither the Great Dome nor Building 10 managed to vanish into the realm of shadows.
Related:
In 1999, prior to the release of the Phantom Menace, the dome was turned into R2D2.
Around the time that the hack appeared, a photoshopped movie poster was also floating around MIT humor lists, depicting Frodo holding an MIT Brass Rat (the MIT class ring) with the subtitle "One Ring To Rule Them All".
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