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Originally Posted by Aganzir
We spent that class discussing and sketching (though more the former). Nevrast where Tuor tarried for a summer? Doriath, with Lúthien dancing in the shadows? Or what about Lothlórien? In the summer or winter? Or the gardens of Lórien in Valinor? It would be a little too ambitious to try to paint Taniquetil, wouldn't it? The Shire? The Old Forest, or even Fangorn?
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From my POV, most of the places you named are the ones I could place under the term "paradise" if you asked me (of course as it was said M-E itself as whole is a paradise). Of those you said, I will exclude Taniquetil, as it is maybe too high but nothing else (and though I might like snow-covered mountains, I would surely find a better mountain somewhere on the other side of the sea), the Shire, as it is too much "common" for me, too "wordly", and Old Forest, as I don't see it as good as maybe Fangorn, though even Fangorn maybe does not fit under the term "paradise" in my thoughts. It is a nice place, where I would like to live, but it's a "common" place where I would like to live: the same value for me have Dale, Mirkwood (Amon Lanc), the shores of lake Rhun (!), Chetwood and Isengard (before fortified by Saruman). Also agree on Faelivrin, but what is the most outworldly beautiful place for me is indeed
Cirith Ninniach. I was fascinated by it and still I am. And it would include the underground river as well, to balance the beauty and the light of day and rainbow with the calming darkness full of the sound of running water, which can bring one to the most beautiful and calm deep sleep in the eternal night.