It’s just a drawing convention. The Alps could be said to have a 90° turn, and indeed if you look at this 16th century map for example, they are drawn like that. And the mountains surrounding Bohemia look very much like the ones surrounding Mordor in Tolkien’s map, right angles and all.
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There are also places like South Georgia island where a section of Oceanic plate juts out making a full U-shape of undersea mountain ranges.
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I’m gonna get carto-pedantic here and seethe about the narrator’s description of the “small-scale” Shire map at 10:31.
A map’s scale is the ratio of the size of a map to the territory it depicts.
Small scale = large area, less fine detail
Large scale = small area, more fine detail
Tolkien’s inset map of the Shire has a larger scale than the main map of Middle Earth.
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