Fantasizing - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

The Silver-shod Muse · 04-29-2002, 07:40 PM

Yes...Come to think of it, I suffered the same painful disillusionment after completing the LotR series. It was really awful. I had dreams in which I desperately tried to continue the adventures, but it went away after a while. Well, not entirely (after all, what would I be doing hanging out here?) No doubt about it, Tolkien definitely created a world that never leaves you.

P.S. Since ME is really supposed to be our own Earth in an earlier age, I don't suppose it's any good looking for it. (*sob*) [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]

Nevfeniel · 04-29-2002, 07:45 PM

I think LotR is one of those books you just wish would never end.

By the way, welcome to the Barrow Downs, Silver-shod Muse. Nice to meet a fellow Texan. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

[ April 29, 2002: Message edited by: Nevfeniel ]

Voronwen Amatiriel Cuile · 04-29-2002, 08:06 PM

I agree. ME holds kind of a bitter-sweet emotion for me- i love it, but i can never really go back exept in memory... i feel like the elves of lothlorien, leaving there homes forever, never to return...Does ME feel like home to any one else? It just usualy makes me long for Heaven even more... (sigh) [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Tigerlily Gamgee · 04-29-2002, 10:47 PM

One thing's for sure... it makes me long to get out of the smoggy city and to somewhere much more beautiful and natural. I am becoming very uncomfortable in the city, but it helps if I think of areas much more beautiful.
*sigh* Why can't I be a forest ranger, or something [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

Cimmerian · 04-30-2002, 07:32 AM

Aye, tis a shame indeed ! I long to be fighting alonside my ancestors as well, but alas it is only so in dreams.... [img]smilies/confused.gif[/img]

Eärendil · 04-30-2002, 10:48 AM

Middle Earth feels like home for me, that´s where I should be I think...(feels kinda wrong to live here sometimes, even though I really really love Sweden (where I live)).
I want to go home, to Lothlórien, Rivendell, Valinor, waaah... [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]

The Silver-shod Muse · 04-30-2002, 05:32 PM

Sometimes I wonder about myself. I believe I'll go quite out of my mind if I don't get out in the open and see mountains untouched by anything but sun and moonlight and rain. It makes me quite lonely sometimes, as I'm sure you can understand. ME seemed to fill all that for a while. And YES Cimmerian, I too feel that fighting beside my wild ancestors in the highlands should be my lot. Alas for a world that promises water and leaves us thirsting!

piosenniel · 05-02-2002, 04:51 PM

mae govannen, silver shod muse!

i think one of the reasons that drew me to live in oregon was its forests and mountains and volcanic cones and of course, the enduring sea. it doesn't take too long to find a piece of old ME here in oregon.

Anarya SilverBranch · 05-02-2002, 06:13 PM

You know what is really irritating? Going out back into your acres and acres of woods, and squinting at the trees, really really really wanting to see ents. I want to be in ME! Oh well, i'm happy with the books, but wouldn't that be sweet if you could just hop a plane and fly over to the shire or lothlorien for the week? I would simply die!

The Silver-shod Muse · 05-04-2002, 09:38 PM

Ever been to Alaska? Now that is an awesome country. I imagine that it's something like Oregon, Piosenniel. The air is easy to get addicted to. When I came back to Texas from there, I felt like I was suffocating for a week. [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]

I always imagined ME with a certain smell and coolness that Alaska filled.

[ May 04, 2002: Message edited by: The Silver-shod Muse ]

Pips · 05-04-2002, 09:51 PM

You live in Texas too! Wow, didn't really think I'd ever meet anyone from Texas, obbsessed(lest I am) with Tolkien!

Merendis · 05-04-2002, 09:54 PM

That's the problem with starting books which transport oyu to another place, especially when they are so well written, you suffer from withdrawl at the end. Read them again! according to the law of diminishing returns, you won't recieve as much satisfaction after the first time. or re-read and approach from the studious point of view that this web site does, look of it as more of a subject than a story

Thinhyandoiel · 05-04-2002, 10:02 PM

Ah, I know how that feels. After I put the book down, I sat there looking around, or out my window, seeing the factory smoke coming from across the street, and I wanted to go back to the country. To take a walk through the untrodden trails at my Kukom's (Grandma's) home. I want to relive my ancestry, of hunting buffalo and migrating through the plains, living a wild and free life. That book just makes me so nostalgic for times we can never touch anymore. And how many times have I scolded kids and adults alike for carving their names in trees? *sighs* I really wish there were Ents to protect the forests, as we don't seem able to do that.

Midgardsormen · 05-05-2002, 04:12 AM

Merendis!
I have read them again many times!! It does not take away the sadness each time when the book is over [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]
What does help is that I go back and visit my sisters every two years and they both live in the country with mountains rivers and the sea...one even lives in a valley with a waterfall [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
I am going back in a few months for another visit and she has promised us a hike to a mountain cabin....spend the night, tell stories by candle light....it will be wonderful. There are places on the planet now that give you that same feeling, you just have to find them....
However, I do not mind the sadness at the end of the book.........it means the book has touched my profoundly and given me both joy and sorrow.

Lothiriel Silmarien · 05-05-2002, 01:34 PM

I thought that I was like the only person who felt this way! I can't help it, I always think about being in Middle Earth and being an elf or something. I always wish that I could give up this life and go to Middle Earth and live happily with the other inhabitants of Middle Earth and to live somewhere so beautiful, like Lothlorien or Rivendell. Or just anywhere in Middle Earth I wanna go there so bad!!!!!

TheWindsorStar · 05-05-2002, 02:49 PM

Well the books definitely made me more conscious about the importance and beauty of nature. I've always liked the idea of forests and rivers and streams that aren't trampled over and polluted, but I guess the books brought that out in me even more. I know I love walking down to the river alone at sunset and looking out at the water. Even though the wind practically pushes me into it, and Detroit looms large at the other side, it's quite nice. I get sick of living in the city sometimes too. At least my street and school both have nice trees.

The Silver-shod Muse · 05-06-2002, 08:35 PM

Isn't it a funny thing that while it seems no one likes what the Earth is becoming, no one seems able to stop it either? It makes me lonely and homesick for a time I never knew...

Daisy Sandybanks · 05-06-2002, 09:06 PM

Here! Here! All too true my dear Silver-shod. This has come up numerous times, in numerous posts, and yet, I still love discussing it. Afer I finised the books, my fantasising was at an all time high,I spet every single day wishing that I was in ME, off on some wonderous adventure.
My friend and I even had an hour long discussion on what we would bring along with us and where we would go if we really did happen to go on some quest. But, in the end, we figured out that the world was too conized, and much of it had already been explored, to actualy attempt a real quest.

04-29-2002, 07:40 PM	#1
The Silver-shod Muse Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: The shoulder of a poet, TX Posts: 388	Fantasizing Yes...Come to think of it, I suffered the same painful disillusionment after completing the LotR series. It was really awful. I had dreams in which I desperately tried to continue the adventures, but it went away after a while. Well, not entirely (after all, what would I be doing hanging out here?) No doubt about it, Tolkien definitely created a world that never leaves you. P.S. Since ME is really supposed to be our own Earth in an earlier age, I don't suppose it's any good looking for it. (sob) [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] __________________ "'You," he said, "tell her all. What good came to you? Do you rejoice that Maleldil became a man? Tell her of your joys, and of what profit you had when you made Maleldil and death acquainted.'" -Perelandra, by C.S. Lewis

04-29-2002, 07:45 PM	#2
Nevfeniel Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mithlond Posts: 783	I think LotR is one of those books you just wish would never end. By the way, welcome to the Barrow Downs, Silver-shod Muse. Nice to meet a fellow Texan. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] [ April 29, 2002: Message edited by: Nevfeniel ] __________________ Consider the purr a variety of audible tranquilizer. [. . .] For a few of us, there is one more purr, a secret purr. When we combine our secret purrs, we produce the Purr of Power. And that is simply the amplified amity we feel as furred and purred beings.

04-29-2002, 08:06 PM	#3
Voronwen Amatiriel Cuile Pile O'Bones Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: No-where-ville: trust me, you dont care:-) Posts: 17	I agree. ME holds kind of a bitter-sweet emotion for me- i love it, but i can never really go back exept in memory... i feel like the elves of lothlorien, leaving there homes forever, never to return...Does ME feel like home to any one else? It just usualy makes me long for Heaven even more... (sigh) [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] __________________ "Sing and be glad, all ye children of the West, for your King shall come again, and he shall dwell amoung you all the days of your life."

04-29-2002, 10:47 PM	#4
Tigerlily Gamgee Hostess of Spirits Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Meduseld Posts: 1,055	One thing's for sure... it makes me long to get out of the smoggy city and to somewhere much more beautiful and natural. I am becoming very uncomfortable in the city, but it helps if I think of areas much more beautiful. sigh Why can't I be a forest ranger, or something [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] __________________ ~ ExerciseJunky.com (Hobbits fitness of choice!)~ ~Lady of Rohan: An Eowyn Fansite ~ ~The NEW/OLD Barrow Downs Photo Page~

04-30-2002, 07:32 AM	#5
Cimmerian Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Aquilonia Posts: 382	Aye, tis a shame indeed ! I long to be fighting alonside my ancestors as well, but alas it is only so in dreams.... [img]smilies/confused.gif[/img] __________________ IN STEEL I TRUST, BY CROM!

04-30-2002, 10:48 AM	#6
Eärendil Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Valinor (RtL: 1220 miles) Posts: 562	Middle Earth feels like home for me, that´s where I should be I think...(feels kinda wrong to live here sometimes, even though I really really love Sweden (where I live)). I want to go home, to Lothlórien, Rivendell, Valinor, waaah... [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] __________________ Jag ska aldrig göra dig illa. Inte igen. Åtminstone inte mycket, åtminstone inte hårt. Kommer du ihåg? Då vi fortfarande kunde skratta, le på ett äkta vis. Jag tänker på det ibland. Det smärtar. För aldrig har du väl varit. Längre bort. Från mig.

04-30-2002, 05:32 PM	#7
The Silver-shod Muse Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: The shoulder of a poet, TX Posts: 388	Sometimes I wonder about myself. I believe I'll go quite out of my mind if I don't get out in the open and see mountains untouched by anything but sun and moonlight and rain. It makes me quite lonely sometimes, as I'm sure you can understand. ME seemed to fill all that for a while. And YES Cimmerian, I too feel that fighting beside my wild ancestors in the highlands should be my lot. Alas for a world that promises water and leaves us thirsting! __________________ "'You," he said, "tell her all. What good came to you? Do you rejoice that Maleldil became a man? Tell her of your joys, and of what profit you had when you made Maleldil and death acquainted.'" -Perelandra, by C.S. Lewis

05-02-2002, 04:51 PM	#8
piosenniel Desultory Dwimmerlaik Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Pickin' flowers with Bill the Cat..... Posts: 7,779	mae govannen, silver shod muse! i think one of the reasons that drew me to live in oregon was its forests and mountains and volcanic cones and of course, the enduring sea. it doesn't take too long to find a piece of old ME here in oregon. __________________ Eldest, that’s what I am . . . I knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless - before the Dark Lord came from Outside.

05-02-2002, 06:13 PM	#9
Anarya SilverBranch Wight Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: In maiden meditation, fancy free. Posts: 245	You know what is really irritating? Going out back into your acres and acres of woods, and squinting at the trees, really really really wanting to see ents. I want to be in ME! Oh well, i'm happy with the books, but wouldn't that be sweet if you could just hop a plane and fly over to the shire or lothlorien for the week? I would simply die! __________________ Snow white! Snow White! O' Lady Clear! O' Queen Beyond the Western Seas! O' light to us that wander here amid the world of woven trees!

05-04-2002, 09:38 PM	#10
The Silver-shod Muse Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: The shoulder of a poet, TX Posts: 388	Ever been to Alaska? Now that is an awesome country. I imagine that it's something like Oregon, Piosenniel. The air is easy to get addicted to. When I came back to Texas from there, I felt like I was suffocating for a week. [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] I always imagined ME with a certain smell and coolness that Alaska filled. [ May 04, 2002: Message edited by: The Silver-shod Muse ] __________________ "'You," he said, "tell her all. What good came to you? Do you rejoice that Maleldil became a man? Tell her of your joys, and of what profit you had when you made Maleldil and death acquainted.'" -Perelandra, by C.S. Lewis

05-04-2002, 09:51 PM	#11
Pips Haunting Spirit Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Brandyhall, Texas Posts: 67	You live in Texas too! Wow, didn't really think I'd ever meet anyone from Texas, obbsessed(lest I am) with Tolkien!

05-04-2002, 09:54 PM	#12
Merendis Animated Skeleton Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: An hour from Eden and the Stairway to Hell Posts: 45	That's the problem with starting books which transport oyu to another place, especially when they are so well written, you suffer from withdrawl at the end. Read them again! according to the law of diminishing returns, you won't recieve as much satisfaction after the first time. or re-read and approach from the studious point of view that this web site does, look of it as more of a subject than a story __________________ Merendis Mthe Mmariner's Mwife Riding one day in the forest of the Westlands he saw a woman, whose dark hair flowed in the wind, and about her was a green cloak...and he knew her for Erendis...then suddenly he knew in himself the love that he bore her, and he felt the emptiness of his days.

05-04-2002, 10:02 PM	#13
Thinhyandoiel Wight Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Canada Posts: 187	Ah, I know how that feels. After I put the book down, I sat there looking around, or out my window, seeing the factory smoke coming from across the street, and I wanted to go back to the country. To take a walk through the untrodden trails at my Kukom's (Grandma's) home. I want to relive my ancestry, of hunting buffalo and migrating through the plains, living a wild and free life. That book just makes me so nostalgic for times we can never touch anymore. And how many times have I scolded kids and adults alike for carving their names in trees? sighs I really wish there were Ents to protect the forests, as we don't seem able to do that. __________________ In gwidh ristennen, i fae narchannen I lach Anor ed ardhon gwannen Caled veleg, ethuiannen

05-05-2002, 04:12 AM	#14
Midgardsormen Animated Skeleton Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 29	Merendis! I have read them again many times!! It does not take away the sadness each time when the book is over [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] What does help is that I go back and visit my sisters every two years and they both live in the country with mountains rivers and the sea...one even lives in a valley with a waterfall [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] I am going back in a few months for another visit and she has promised us a hike to a mountain cabin....spend the night, tell stories by candle light....it will be wonderful. There are places on the planet now that give you that same feeling, you just have to find them.... However, I do not mind the sadness at the end of the book.........it means the book has touched my profoundly and given me both joy and sorrow. __________________ Midgardsormen

05-05-2002, 01:34 PM	#15
Lothiriel Silmarien Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: New York Posts: 829	I thought that I was like the only person who felt this way! I can't help it, I always think about being in Middle Earth and being an elf or something. I always wish that I could give up this life and go to Middle Earth and live happily with the other inhabitants of Middle Earth and to live somewhere so beautiful, like Lothlorien or Rivendell. Or just anywhere in Middle Earth I wanna go there so bad!!!!! __________________ Si vanwa na Romello vanwa Valimar!~~ ~~Now lost, lost to those from the East is Valimar! My LotR page

05-05-2002, 02:49 PM	#16
TheWindsorStar Pile O'Bones Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Windsor, Ontario, Canada Posts: 15	Well the books definitely made me more conscious about the importance and beauty of nature. I've always liked the idea of forests and rivers and streams that aren't trampled over and polluted, but I guess the books brought that out in me even more. I know I love walking down to the river alone at sunset and looking out at the water. Even though the wind practically pushes me into it, and Detroit looms large at the other side, it's quite nice. I get sick of living in the city sometimes too. At least my street and school both have nice trees. __________________ "I will not say: Do not weep; for not all tears are in evil."

05-06-2002, 08:35 PM	#17
The Silver-shod Muse Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: The shoulder of a poet, TX Posts: 388	Isn't it a funny thing that while it seems no one likes what the Earth is becoming, no one seems able to stop it either? It makes me lonely and homesick for a time I never knew... __________________ "'You," he said, "tell her all. What good came to you? Do you rejoice that Maleldil became a man? Tell her of your joys, and of what profit you had when you made Maleldil and death acquainted.'" -Perelandra, by C.S. Lewis

05-06-2002, 09:06 PM	#18
Daisy Sandybanks Wight Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: California Posts: 101	Here! Here! All too true my dear Silver-shod. This has come up numerous times, in numerous posts, and yet, I still love discussing it. Afer I finised the books, my fantasising was at an all time high,I spet every single day wishing that I was in ME, off on some wonderous adventure. My friend and I even had an hour long discussion on what we would bring along with us and where we would go if we really did happen to go on some quest. But, in the end, we figured out that the world was too conized, and much of it had already been explored, to actualy attempt a real quest. __________________ Knowlege is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil.