A paradise on Middle-Earth - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Aganzir · 10-20-2008, 01:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

Come on - paradise with Dwarves???

Hey you racist, had I not fallen so in love with so many places already, my paradise would be full of dwarves!

The RPG character I've been playing the longest is a dwarf from the Blue Mountains (from a village called Beard Valley, to be precise

), and although it is not a place very much described by Tolkien, I imagine it to be nice, calm, quiet, cool, comfortable... A bit like Finland actually.

*goes away, imagining a big manor full of oiled half-naked dwarf servants bringing me drinks and rubbing my feet*

Kitanna · 10-20-2008, 01:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Aganzir

*goes away, imagining a big manor full of oiled half-naked dwarf servants bringing me drinks and rubbing my feet*

Oh my!

Though a dwarf paradise would definitely be a nice place, I think. Maybe that's just because I love mountains and dwarves are usually inhabiting said mountains. I think Erebor pre-Smaug would be a nice place to retire. The Dwarrowdelf in it's high time also wouldn't be a bad place to make residence.

It is a tough choice to pick a personal paradise in Middle-Earth. Tolkien's descriptions, the various works of art, etc. all make most areas of Middle-Earth seem like perfect places to call home.

Though for me it has always been Rivendell that I label paradise. I could spend an eternity composing bad poetry in the company of elves.

alatar · 05-18-2010, 09:23 AM

Time brings new thoughts.

There was this place in the woods where I grew up that was grassy. Not vine-covered tree infested, not weedy, not overrun by jaggers or empty steel cans, but just a place covered in grass that was open to the sky. Sure, we had grass all around our house, but this grass, down over the hills in a hard-to-reach part of the woods, never needed mowing. It was always cooler there, as somehow the breeze would find its way through the mess that surrounded it.

I could just lie there some days and stare cloudward.

Guinevere · 05-19-2010, 06:30 PM

Alatar, your description made me immediately think of Voronwë's tale:

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"Yet fairest of all are the willows of Nan-tathren, pale green, or silver in the wind, and the rustle of their innumerable leaves is a spell of music: day and night would flicker by uncounted, while still I stood knee-deep in grass and listened. There I was enchanted, and forgot the Sea in my heart. There I wandered, naming new flowers, or lay adream amid the singing of the birds, and the humming of bees and flies; and there I might still dwell in delight, forsaking all my kin, whether the ships of the Teleri or the swords of the Noldor, but my doom would not so."

This sounds quite paradisiac to me too!

Here is a picture of Voronwë in Nan-tathren, by Anke Eissmann

alatar · 05-19-2010, 06:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Guinevere

Alatar, your description made me immediately think of Voronwë's tale:

That's near to the place I was thinking of. When writing the post, I forgot the most important part of my description, that it reminded me of what Parth Galen should be.

mark12_30 · 05-20-2010, 02:12 PM

No one has mentioned Annunimas, or Evendim.

Or the Tower Hills.

Forlindon and Harlindon would be my elvish choices (after Rivendell; Lothlorien would be good but doesn't quite seem practical for a mortal to invite themselves to.)

Edhellond, in an earlier age, although constantly standing on the pier and waving goodbye would get old after a while.

The Ered Luin always used to call to me, not for any dwarvish reasons, but for the elvish mysterious not-on-the-map feeling I got when I looked at the "empty" mountains. Would you hear singing echoing from the trees? Hmmm.

Galadriel · 02-02-2011, 01:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Kitanna

I could spend an eternity composing bad poetry in the company of elves.

Even when they tease you?

I'd hate to encounter a tra-la-la-lally sort who does that

Galadriel55 · 02-02-2011, 09:17 AM

I think that ME as a whole is a paradise. The reason: paradise=perfect place of extreme beauty, delight, or happiness. Nothing is perfect, or complete, without a bit of everything on it. That would turn out a bit hard to paint, though!

Galadriel · 02-03-2011, 03:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Galadriel55

I think that ME as a whole is a paradise. The reason: paradise=perfect place of extreme beauty, delight, or happiness. Nothing is perfect, or complete, without a bit of everything on it. That would turn out a bit hard to paint, though!

Imagine an entire fresco of Middle-earth

THAT would be a Wonder of the World

Galadriel55 · 02-03-2011, 06:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Galadriel

Imagine an entire fresco of Middle-earth

THAT would be a Wonder of the World

If it's done properly and LOOKS like ME!

Galadriel · 03-01-2011, 07:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Galadriel55

If it's done properly and LOOKS like ME!

Haha. That's what I meant. Otherwise it wouldn't live up to Tolkien's stuff

05-18-2010, 09:23 AM	#3
alatar Doubting Dwimmerlaik Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Heaven's basement Posts: 2,466	Time brings new thoughts. There was this place in the woods where I grew up that was grassy. Not vine-covered tree infested, not weedy, not overrun by jaggers or empty steel cans, but just a place covered in grass that was open to the sky. Sure, we had grass all around our house, but this grass, down over the hills in a hard-to-reach part of the woods, never needed mowing. It was always cooler there, as somehow the breeze would find its way through the mess that surrounded it. I could just lie there some days and stare cloudward. __________________ There is naught that you can do, other than to resist, with hope or without it.

05-20-2010, 02:12 PM	#6
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	No one has mentioned Annunimas, or Evendim. Or the Tower Hills. Forlindon and Harlindon would be my elvish choices (after Rivendell; Lothlorien would be good but doesn't quite seem practical for a mortal to invite themselves to.) Edhellond, in an earlier age, although constantly standing on the pier and waving goodbye would get old after a while. The Ered Luin always used to call to me, not for any dwarvish reasons, but for the elvish mysterious not-on-the-map feeling I got when I looked at the "empty" mountains. Would you hear singing echoing from the trees? Hmmm. __________________ ...down to the water to see the elves dance and sing upon the midsummer's eve.

02-02-2011, 09:17 AM	#8
Galadriel55 Blossom of Dwimordene Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: The realm of forgotten words Posts: 10,515	I think that ME as a whole is a paradise. The reason: paradise=perfect place of extreme beauty, delight, or happiness. Nothing is perfect, or complete, without a bit of everything on it. That would turn out a bit hard to paint, though! __________________ You passed from under darkened dome, you enter now the secret land. - Take me to Finrod's fabled home!... ~ Finrod: The Rock Opera