Why There Are Faces In Lord Of The Rings' Dead Marshes

Nebamun Hunting in the Marshes. #Egypt Nebamun is shown hunting birds, in a small boat with his wife Hatshepsut and their young daughter, in the marshes of the Nile. Such scenes had already been traditional parts of tomb-chapel decoration for hundreds of years and show the dead tomb-owner ‘enjoying himself and seeing beauty’, as the hieroglyphic caption here says. Yet this activity had another metaphoric meaning. When depicting the deceased in hunting and grasping fowls or birds in his grip it m