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Old 09-14-2009, 09:36 PM   #1
CSteefel
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Do you recognize these landscapes in LOTR?

Just wondering if people recognized any of the landscapes in LOTR? Perhaps the most famous could be Rivendell, which I have seen as inspired apparently by some Swiss valley that Tolkien entered as a young man. I am actually a bit surprised by this, since most Swiss valleys I have seen have that characteristic U shape from glaciation, while Rivendell always struck me as a more of a gorge???

Otherwise, the Shire and environs seems like classic sort of English countryside (Kent?), or almost a caricature of it.

I am more interested in some of the other landscapes, like the region near Weathertop, or the hill country of the Trolls just before the arrival in Rivendell.

Other landscapes?? Ithilien, Rohan, Emyn Muil, Hollin???
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