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Lyta_Underhill · 07-18-2003, 11:30 PM

I've really enjoyed all the descriptions, outer and inner! It is important to have that refuge, and I feel for you, Rumil, having to work in Lugburz! Perhaps you can pop over to Ithilien sometime! Oddly enough, Birmingham, Alabama reminds me of Mordor in some places (downtown industries). Maybe its the name? There are other places in the city that are breathtaking!

I actually live in a place that could be Middle Earth quite easily--120 acres of mostly forested land in the middle of nowhere, Tennessee, although farms surround it, and there is always the sound of heavy equipment scraping large slate and limestone rocks to contend with. Also stray cows and coyotes, snakes, turtles, groundhogs, goats, deer, UFOs, you know, the usual! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] My favorite ME place, however, is a very hidden area flanked by rocks and rough walls of fallen cedars; I call it Rivendell, and it is hidden quite well. When I first found it, I had trouble returning to it. Tiny trickles of water fall from the interstices of the rocks, and it is a natural 'room' of sorts. Above Rivendell is the shelf of rocks, one of which I call "Arwen's Rock" and I sit and watch the woods and write from there when I am in greatest need of escape. There is an area next to Rivendell that I have not yet explored thoroughly, as it is dangerous going to get to, but it has huge moss covered rocks and VERY tall trees; it makes me feel hobbit scale, as if I were wandering in Fangorn, or perhaps it could be Wellinghall! Haven't found the Entwash though.

Before you all groan and wonder how I got so lucky, keep in mind the down side of living in the middle of nowhere--there are ZERO jobs, and the living standard is not really very high unless you are of independent means. I don't own this place, but live here by the good graces of a family member. No insurance, rural phone company, because the big Bell companies thought no one lived out here! I dream of someday having a hobbit hole here, and I want to construct the Mirror of Galadriel somewhere near Rivendell. Lots of beauty, lots of places to break one's neck if one is not careful! What a wonderful place!

Cheers,
Lyta

07-18-2003, 11:30 PM	#31
Lyta_Underhill Haunted Halfling Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: an uncounted length of steps--floating between air molecules Posts: 841	I've really enjoyed all the descriptions, outer and inner! It is important to have that refuge, and I feel for you, Rumil, having to work in Lugburz! Perhaps you can pop over to Ithilien sometime! Oddly enough, Birmingham, Alabama reminds me of Mordor in some places (downtown industries). Maybe its the name? There are other places in the city that are breathtaking! I actually live in a place that could be Middle Earth quite easily--120 acres of mostly forested land in the middle of nowhere, Tennessee, although farms surround it, and there is always the sound of heavy equipment scraping large slate and limestone rocks to contend with. Also stray cows and coyotes, snakes, turtles, groundhogs, goats, deer, UFOs, you know, the usual! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] My favorite ME place, however, is a very hidden area flanked by rocks and rough walls of fallen cedars; I call it Rivendell, and it is hidden quite well. When I first found it, I had trouble returning to it. Tiny trickles of water fall from the interstices of the rocks, and it is a natural 'room' of sorts. Above Rivendell is the shelf of rocks, one of which I call "Arwen's Rock" and I sit and watch the woods and write from there when I am in greatest need of escape. There is an area next to Rivendell that I have not yet explored thoroughly, as it is dangerous going to get to, but it has huge moss covered rocks and VERY tall trees; it makes me feel hobbit scale, as if I were wandering in Fangorn, or perhaps it could be Wellinghall! Haven't found the Entwash though. Before you all groan and wonder how I got so lucky, keep in mind the down side of living in the middle of nowhere--there are ZERO jobs, and the living standard is not really very high unless you are of independent means. I don't own this place, but live here by the good graces of a family member. No insurance, rural phone company, because the big Bell companies thought no one lived out here! I dream of someday having a hobbit hole here, and I want to construct the Mirror of Galadriel somewhere near Rivendell. Lots of beauty, lots of places to break one's neck if one is not careful! What a wonderful place! Cheers, Lyta __________________ “…she laid herself to rest upon Cerin Amroth; and there is her green grave, until the world is changed, and all the days of her life are utterly forgotten by men that come after, and elanor and niphredil bloom no more east of the Sea.”