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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/sting.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Lord of the Ring landscapes
For the very accute sense of getting a wholly different place, I love the passage from Rohan, through the Paths of the Dead, and to the River. Only the bits in Rohan are described with very much detail. The relics of the woses serve brilliantly to change the tenor, a shift already begun by night battle at the Deep, and by forest on the move, etc. So even though the following landscapes are barely even sketched, the imagination is stoked and it engages and it embellishes so effectively the few economic descriptions through there.
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