Where in Middle-Earth do YOU live? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Valier · 12-19-2005, 01:17 PM

I live in Saskatchewan Canada ....So I guess pretty much like Rohan,but with no mountains close.

Elu Ancalime · 12-26-2005, 10:33 AM

I live in gainesville FL, but i would probably live in Tookland and try to travel to Minas Tirith.
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Eowyn Skywalker · 01-02-2006, 05:38 PM

I'm trying to figure out why I used to sign every single one of my posts...

(looks outside)

I still think I live in a Canadian reincarnated version of the Shire. Bar the frost at the moment, which makes it look like some northern version of the Shire still. (the Shire just became a shirt in my post. O_O) But Canada seems to have a lot of Tolkien-ish locations. I think he drew inspiration from us, or something...

This thread still lives...is dead...is alive? Something.

mark12_30 · 01-12-2008, 09:17 PM

I live in a little settlement in the woods. Most of our woods are oak but there are beech groves and some young pines. The houses nearby are all family dwellings. Beyond, to the west, there aren't many houses for quite a ways, and behind us to the east there are more woods still.

There are paths through the woods, crisscrossing, and a little confusing if you don''t know your way around or have a ranger to lead you. And in the woods are old stone ruins of houses and farms from a hundred years gone by, or more. Old stone walls ramble here and there. The rivers are brown from the oak tannin.

Chetwood, perhaps.

Meneltarmacil · 01-12-2008, 11:20 PM

The place where you live sounds kind of like the area between the Last Bridge and Rivendell, near the Stone-Trolls, complete with old ruins of settlements from when Rhudaur still controlled the area. And yes, it's easy to get lost there, even Aragorn did when he was trying to get Frodo to Rivendell.

Estelyn Telcontar · 01-13-2008, 08:47 AM

Though I usually consider the area where I live to be a modern version of the Shire, I walked in Fangorn near Isengard yesterday. I took a turn that led me into the woods, a spot where I hadn't been for awhile. I was saddened to see the bare patches where trees came down in last year's hurricane winds, flanked by stacks of felled trees alongside the road. The bare deciduous trees of winter added to the impression. No wizard - a natural catastrophe caused this destruction, yet Treebeard's words echoed in my mind: "Many of those trees... I had known from nut and acorn..."

Legate of Amon Lanc · 01-13-2008, 10:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Estelyn Telcontar

No wizard - a natural catastrophe caused this destruction

Who knows...

Actually, it is strange, as today I also took a walk and unexpectedly I ended up on the plains of Rohan. I even started to think at one point that I could catch up with the Uruk-hai and the Rohirrim who pursued them, but I just walked and was in no hurry, and they no doubt were far in front of me and moving very fast. Actually, oh, only now I just realised how stupid I was - if I waited a bit, surely I could have met at least Gimli, Aragorn and Legolas. Oh, never mind. Hopefully I will have chance to visit that place again sometime. But then I reached the edge of Fangorn, indeed, in fact I have not expected that, though I knew there is some forest there. But this part of the forest was all right and unharmed - probably too far from Isengard to be threatened. Well, I went a long way through it, and surely at the beginning, near the place when I entered, there must have been some Ents - or Huorns, at least. I believe I recognised one at minimum, leaning its long arms - or branches - across the path I was following; and I am quite sure they saw me, though I could not spot them.
I must say I was meditating quite some time about the fact that if I was 10 years younger and went that road, I would have been convinced that I will see an Ent sometime. Now, I went that road with the knowledge that I would never see an Ent...

12-19-2005, 01:17 PM	#1
Valier Twisted Taleswapper Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: somewhere between sanity and insanity Posts: 1,706	I live in Saskatchewan Canada ....So I guess pretty much like Rohan,but with no mountains close. __________________ grand return?........

12-26-2005, 10:33 AM	#2
Elu Ancalime Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Anador Posts: 476	I live in gainesville FL, but i would probably live in Tookland and try to travel to Minas Tirith. ________ Gm Foods Last edited by Elu Ancalime; 03-03-2011 at 10:28 PM.

01-02-2006, 05:38 PM	#3
Eowyn Skywalker Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Somewhere far, far away. Eh. Posts: 402	I'm trying to figure out why I used to sign every single one of my posts... (looks outside) I still think I live in a Canadian reincarnated version of the Shire. Bar the frost at the moment, which makes it look like some northern version of the Shire still. (the Shire just became a shirt in my post. O_O) But Canada seems to have a lot of Tolkien-ish locations. I think he drew inspiration from us, or something... This thread still lives...is dead...is alive? Something. __________________ Sometimes worlds collide. This time, they got their own webpage. Join Middle-earth: Insanity forums today.

01-12-2008, 09:17 PM	#4
mark12_30 Stormdancer of Doom Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars Posts: 4,349	I live in a little settlement in the woods. Most of our woods are oak but there are beech groves and some young pines. The houses nearby are all family dwellings. Beyond, to the west, there aren't many houses for quite a ways, and behind us to the east there are more woods still. There are paths through the woods, crisscrossing, and a little confusing if you don''t know your way around or have a ranger to lead you. And in the woods are old stone ruins of houses and farms from a hundred years gone by, or more. Old stone walls ramble here and there. The rivers are brown from the oak tannin. Chetwood, perhaps. __________________ ...down to the water to see the elves dance and sing upon the midsummer's eve.

01-12-2008, 11:20 PM	#5
Meneltarmacil Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: The bottom of the ocean, discussing philosophy with a giant squid Posts: 2,254	The place where you live sounds kind of like the area between the Last Bridge and Rivendell, near the Stone-Trolls, complete with old ruins of settlements from when Rhudaur still controlled the area. And yes, it's easy to get lost there, even Aragorn did when he was trying to get Frodo to Rivendell. __________________ I ♣ baby seals.

01-13-2008, 08:47 AM	#6
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	Though I usually consider the area where I live to be a modern version of the Shire, I walked in Fangorn near Isengard yesterday. I took a turn that led me into the woods, a spot where I hadn't been for awhile. I was saddened to see the bare patches where trees came down in last year's hurricane winds, flanked by stacks of felled trees alongside the road. The bare deciduous trees of winter added to the impression. No wizard - a natural catastrophe caused this destruction, yet Treebeard's words echoed in my mind: "Many of those trees... I had known from nut and acorn..." __________________ 'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth...'