Lord of the Ring landscapes - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Lyta_Underhill · 08-03-2003, 11:29 AM

Although it is not breathtakingly beautiful like other favorite landscapes, I always enjoy the description of the Plain of Gorgoroth, simply because it brings to mind the pitted and devastated terrain that I've read about in accounts of WWI. It strikes a resonance, especially with Sam trudging through it, dragging Frodo, who seems like many a soldier who has lost hope in the midst of No Man's Land, scrambling from trench to trench to avoid ever-present shells (or the Eye of Sauron and his orcs!)...very evocative!

I also love Henneth Annun, for its hidden quality and I can almost hear the water falling from the cool rocks. There are a lot of rocks where I live and many have small springs that trickle out from them, so that resonates too. It is amazing how Tolkien can grab personal images from deep inside so many diverse imaginations and give them a greater resonance with his own realm of Middle Earth! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Cheers,
Lyta

P.S. Can't believe I forgot to mention Fangorn! Ah, but I've run out time...it is indescribably alive! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] And before I run out of typing breath, Gilthalion's post reminded me of a favorite image from The Hobbit: the gathering of Elves feasting inside Mirkwood that Bilbo espies and who seem to disappear so quickly! (Real forest faerie feel to them! I was always amused at how Thranduil's folk were always so drunk, too! Makes me wonder if Legolas had a few snootfuls before he set out for Rivendell! Heh hehe! But that's not so on-topic! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] )

[ August 03, 2003: Message edited by: Lyta_Underhill ]

08-03-2003, 11:29 AM	#23
Lyta_Underhill Haunted Halfling Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: an uncounted length of steps--floating between air molecules Posts: 841	Although it is not breathtakingly beautiful like other favorite landscapes, I always enjoy the description of the Plain of Gorgoroth, simply because it brings to mind the pitted and devastated terrain that I've read about in accounts of WWI. It strikes a resonance, especially with Sam trudging through it, dragging Frodo, who seems like many a soldier who has lost hope in the midst of No Man's Land, scrambling from trench to trench to avoid ever-present shells (or the Eye of Sauron and his orcs!)...very evocative! I also love Henneth Annun, for its hidden quality and I can almost hear the water falling from the cool rocks. There are a lot of rocks where I live and many have small springs that trickle out from them, so that resonates too. It is amazing how Tolkien can grab personal images from deep inside so many diverse imaginations and give them a greater resonance with his own realm of Middle Earth! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] Cheers, Lyta P.S. Can't believe I forgot to mention Fangorn! Ah, but I've run out time...it is indescribably alive! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] And before I run out of typing breath, Gilthalion's post reminded me of a favorite image from The Hobbit: the gathering of Elves feasting inside Mirkwood that Bilbo espies and who seem to disappear so quickly! (Real forest faerie feel to them! I was always amused at how Thranduil's folk were always so drunk, too! Makes me wonder if Legolas had a few snootfuls before he set out for Rivendell! Heh hehe! But that's not so on-topic! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] ) [ August 03, 2003: Message edited by: Lyta_Underhill ] __________________ “…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.”