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skip spence · 08-30-2009, 05:32 AM

The Barrow-Downs would have been a hilly, green and tree-less highland with a multitude of moderately tall ridges and valleys in between. The actual Barrows I believe were for the most part really ancient tombs of lost civilisations, dating back several thousand years, and at the time of LotR probably just mossy ruins consisting of scattered stoneworks or jagged standing stones, little resembling how they once looked back in the day. Some of them, like the one the Hobbits were trapped in, would have been built by the Dunedain of Arnor and better preserved, though these too would be more than a thousand years old.

08-30-2009, 05:32 AM	#1
skip spence shadow of a doubt Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Back on the streets Posts: 1,125	The Barrow-Downs would have been a hilly, green and tree-less highland with a multitude of moderately tall ridges and valleys in between. The actual Barrows I believe were for the most part really ancient tombs of lost civilisations, dating back several thousand years, and at the time of LotR probably just mossy ruins consisting of scattered stoneworks or jagged standing stones, little resembling how they once looked back in the day. Some of them, like the one the Hobbits were trapped in, would have been built by the Dunedain of Arnor and better preserved, though these too would be more than a thousand years old. __________________ "You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way" ~ Bob Dylan Last edited by skip spence; 08-30-2009 at 08:49 AM.