when I was a little kid watching LotR for the first time and Boromir described Mordor by saying “the very air you breathe is a poisonous fume” I thought, okay I get what you’re going for, but even for this setting that’s a little over the top melodramatic, dontcha think?

now I can’t leave my house because the greed of evil men has literally corrupted the very essence of the Earth and blotted out the Sun