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Your essay is due at nine. It is ten to nine. You are standing in the corridor with a half-finished draft and a printer that has just announced, with great calm, that it is out of toner.

The group chat says the deadline is flexible. The module handbook says it is not. You have read the handbook exactly once, at the start of term, and you have been quoting the other thing ever since.

Your landlord emails to say he'd like to "pop round" on Saturday to check the damp. You have a mattress against the wall that is doing its best. Some doors should stay closed, and you plant yourself in front of this one.

Your flatmate wants to borrow your room "just for a quick call". Last time that meant three hours, a bowl of cereal and a laptop left on your pillow. You stand in the doorway with your arms out. Not today.

Why it caught on: the picture is Gandalf, played by Ian McKellen, in the Mines of Moria scene of *The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring*, facing the Balrog on the bridge with his arms spread wide. The line is easy to borrow for any moment when someone has to be stopped at a threshold, from exams to bureaucracy to kidney stones, so it was captioned onto almost everything.

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