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08-29-2009, 09:17 PM | #1 |
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the borrow downs
What did the borrow down look like?? i have been reading the book and i am having a hard time thinking about what the borrow downs(frodo and the other 4 hobbits go into after leaving tom bombadil house) land scape migh look like. if there is like a drawing of it could some one send me the link to it that would be great.
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08-29-2009, 11:08 PM | #2 | |
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All pedantry aside (and do forgive me for my facetiousness in taking you to task for a typographical error), the Barrow-Downs probably resembled other hilly areas in England--at least, at a distance. The actual burial sites would have been something like the reconstructions of such early burials as the excavation at Sutton Hoo. If you have seen the scene in The Two Towers Extended Edition where they lay Theodred in the burial mound (feat. a singing Eowyn), that is how they would have looked up close. We also have a picture of a Finnish barrow here. Anyway, those are actual barrows. I checked the main BD site for fanart and found this picture here as well. Hope that helps, and enjoy your reread.
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08-30-2009, 05:32 AM | #3 |
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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.
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