The One Does Not Simply meme features Boromir (played by Sean Bean) from the 2001 film The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. During the Council of Elrond, Boromir states, 'One does not simply walk into Mordor,' while making an iconic circular gesture with his hand. The scene was intended to be serious, but internet culture quickly turned it into a versatile template for describing complex or impossible tasks. Since appearing on the Something Awful forums in the early 2000s, it has evolved into one of the most enduring 'advice animal' style memes, used to highlight the difficulty of seemingly simple actions.