What does Athelas smell like to you? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Galadriel55 · 01-16-2011, 07:49 PM

It's just too much to give anything more specific - It would smell like summer, winter, spring, and fall at once, it would be snowy and rainy and sunny and cloudy and warm and cold and day and night and evening and morning, it would be the ocean and a pine forest... no, change that to any forest, and prairie and mountains and rivers and whatever else I forgot to mention.
I just couldn't decide!

I know what isn't going to be there - cities, or anything to do with them. And there's going to be a tinge of mint in it - for some reason I always assosiated athelas with mint.

01-16-2011, 07:49 PM	#11
Galadriel55 Blossom of Dwimordene Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: The realm of forgotten words Posts: 10,495	Nature. It's just too much to give anything more specific - It would smell like summer, winter, spring, and fall at once, it would be snowy and rainy and sunny and cloudy and warm and cold and day and night and evening and morning, it would be the ocean and a pine forest... no, change that to any forest, and prairie and mountains and rivers and whatever else I forgot to mention. I just couldn't decide! I know what isn't going to be there - cities, or anything to do with them. And there's going to be a tinge of mint in it - for some reason I always assosiated athelas with mint. __________________ You passed from under darkened dome, you enter now the secret land. - Take me to Finrod's fabled home!... ~ Finrod: The Rock Opera