What about Middle-Earth/Valinor most inspires you?

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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/nenya.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Shire rule

<blockquote>Quote:<hr> Then again that Law saved the High King and Queen of Arnor and Gondor from having to visit Bag End , the Great Smials and Buckhall,every time they were in his old neighborhood...<hr></blockquote>
Does this issue have the resonance for anyone else that it has for me. JRRT never adresses it head on. Surely, if Gandalf is roughly man-like in stature, he can't stand up in Bag End. Why would hobbits put in 6+ foot clearances in their cozy parlors? Did Gandalf crawl in for his visits? Or did he stoop and duck-walk like Chuck Berry? And Moria, for heaven sake? Surely the great halls might have high ceilings (high enough for men anyway) but why would any of the passages have more than about a 4 or 5 foot clearance. How on ME did the balrog wriggle up from the very bowels of the place? Maybe that's what happened to his wings -- scraped off on the tight walls. Terribly helpful post, no?
btw Balin, Gimli's beloved caves at the Deep were called Aglarond.

</p>Edited by <A HREF=http://www.barrowdowns.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_profile&u=00000201>galpsi</A> at: 8/30/00 12:05:56 pm