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The worst depiction of an archivist in media is the archivist in Minas Tirith who brings FIRE into the record store. The best depiction of an archivist in media is Brother Armbruster in A Canticle for Leibowitz, who absolutely Gets It™

A screenshot from the LOTR films showing ol' Gandalf himself walking through the archives beneath Minas Tirith. He's being escorted by an absolutely psychopathic 'archivist' who is walking around with a FLAMING TORCH next to documents. No wonder Denethor is losing his mind, we'd be doing the same if this is the staff we employed.An extract from the book 'A Canticle for Leibowitz', with Brother Armbruster (the librarian/archivist at the monastery) begrudgingly producing documents from their storage. He philosophises that the reason to look after books is that they can then be looked after forever, and actually using them to research is a threat to this purpose.