The Lord of the Rings’ Mines of Moria Scene Still Hits Hard 2 Decades Later

Despite the overall somber tone of the mining sequences, nothing could have truly prepared viewers for a particularly heartbreaking moment. Several well-loved Dwarf characters from The Hobbit meet tragic ends, appearing as corpses in a scene that remains deeply disturbing for many fans.


![A reinforcement learning system leverages an LSTM-modeled magnetic catheter-where state is defined by tip position [latex]X_{t},Y_{t}[/latex] and goal [latex]X_{g},Y_{g}[/latex]-to train an agent, employing either a Deep Q-Network or TD3, to select angular increments [latex]\Delta\theta_{1},\,\Delta\theta_{3}[/latex]-with [latex]\Delta\theta_{2}=\Delta\theta_{1}[/latex] due to coupling-and optimize a reward function balancing goal proximity with control effort, effectively establishing closed-loop control of the catheter’s tip.](https://arxiv.org/html/2512.21063v1/Overview2.png)

