Also called I Have No Memory of This Place
Return to something you should recognize, look around, and realize you remember none of it. The three panels give the confusion time to settle in.
Gandalf’s searching looks suggest that even the person expected to lead the way has lost track. It suits reopening an old project, returning after a break, or discovering that a familiar place has changed.
Use the first two panels for the return and the attempt to remember. The close-up in the third panel is the admission that the memory has not arrived.
In The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), Gandalf admits he does not remember the place while the group travels through the Mines of Moria. His uncertainty supplies the reaction behind this three-panel template. [1]
Know Your Meme documents a November 2011 Reddit post using the scene for the feeling of returning to the office after a holiday break. [1]
The Fellowship of the Ring shows Gandalf unsure of the route through the mines. [1]
A Reddit post uses the three-panel image to describe returning to work after a holiday. [1]
Another Reddit variation applies the line to code its author can no longer recognize. [1]
Place a short line near the bottom of each panel. The changing angle of Gandalf’s face provides the pauses between your thoughts.
Start with a reason the place or task ought to be familiar. The final line should admit that you still cannot find your way. You can also leave the middle panel uncaptioned when editing your own version to create a longer pause.
Original captions to try with this template.
Being the creator does not guarantee remembering how the project works.
The familiar routine fails because the surroundings have changed.
The handwriting proves who wrote it without making the notes any clearer.
References for this template. Example captions are original.
Identifies the Moria scene and documents the November and December 2011 captioned versions.
