What place in Middle Earth most resembles where you live? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Lhunbelethiel · 11-02-2002, 11:20 AM

Is there a place in ME that looks like the place where you live? I'd have to say I live in a place like the Bay of Belfalas, but with lots of rolling hills all around. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

LePetitChoux · 11-02-2002, 12:35 PM

I guess the closest thing to London would be a big city like Minas Tirith...

Sleeping Beauty · 11-02-2002, 01:02 PM

The closest place in Middle-Earth to where I live would be Mirkwood. I live way back in the woods, so it fits. They can be really dark, especially at night, so I hope there are no huge spiders...@_@

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Meela · 11-02-2002, 02:54 PM

scotland is arnor, wales is mordor (Black Mt.s a biiiig giveaway...), south west is the shire, although i do kinda live in minas tirith..., south east is gondor, north west of england (lake district style) is mirkwood, middle east area (between newcastle and nottingham (?)) is lothlorien, birmingham area and newcastle area is dwarfiness, and the centre (between southampton, derbyshire, bristol-ish, and nottingham-ish) is where rivendell should be, cos theres nowhere else

my nottingham is just above the east anglia 'bump' that sticks out of the coast in the south east. if its not right, take my nottingham as watever is above the bump.

ireland is the undying lands.

if ure american (usa only), east-s.east is gondor, north east is lothlorien, north is dwarfiness, north west is mirkwood, west is nothing as such, south west is rohan, and south is arnor. mordor doesnt exist unless it is the west. (added note- rivendell is in the west.)

europe as a whole- scandinavia = arnor. british isles = the shire. spain = rohan. italy = gondor. russia = wastelands and some dwarfiness in the west. germany = dwarf also. france = shire and around, also. austria, and switzerland, etc. = mirkwood. belgium and the netherlands = rivendell. bulgaria, transylvania, etc. = lothlorien area. malta = undying lands. mordor is somewhere in far eastern-ish europe. sorry if i forgot anything.

11-02-2002, 03:03 PM

I'd have to say that I live outside of Hobbiton. Im surrounded by wheat feilds and there's a small town about 3 miles away.

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Manwe Sulimo · 11-02-2002, 03:14 PM

Meela, NE USA more closely resembles the Far Downs (the Shire-ish feel, with mountains in the background).

Lórien, we certainly are not.

InklingElf · 11-02-2002, 03:27 PM

hmmmm what could California be?-probably the Mist Mountains for the bay area...

Meela · 11-02-2002, 03:27 PM

i didnt have my map- i lost it. that was a semi- guess, so loth. and mirk. may be the wrong way round...

does the n. e. have forest?

InklingElf · 11-02-2002, 03:31 PM

ooooh ic

-for the forest umm I think the place where the Red Wood trees are will fit just right w/ Mirkwood...

Arwen Imladris · 11-02-2002, 03:52 PM

I live in Canada, Ontario. We have lots o trees, not mainy big mountains but hills we have as well as a few flat farmland type of thing. Perhaps in Doriath? Either that or the Shire or Mirkwood, Lothlorien...

Galadrie1 · 11-02-2002, 03:53 PM

There's lots of forest around where I live, so I guess it's like Mirkwood. But I find the people here are very opposed to change, and a lot of them don't like leaving the area, so in that sense it's more like the Shire.

tangerine · 11-02-2002, 10:19 PM

I'm from Ontario, and my town is pretty cottage country, and many people have never gone outside it, though you kinda have to the go to high school. I'd say it's a pretty fair version of the Shire.

Lindril Arvilya · 11-03-2002, 09:13 AM

I too am from Ontario, but I'd say I'm on top of one of the Misty Mountains. Or Caradhras. You should see the whiteout this morning.

Selmo · 11-03-2002, 10:08 AM

I live on the edge of a city where traditional industries, coal mining, iron & steel making, quarrying and ceramics, are in decline. Much of it seems like Mordor on a bad day.

But just a mile from my house are quiet, small fields and little woods and good people; The Shire.

vanwalossien · 11-03-2002, 10:29 AM

I live in eastern Norway, in a place that is sorta Shire-ish, or maybe around Bree someplace.

Aylwen Dreamsong · 11-03-2002, 10:55 AM

well, I live in Maryland USA. At first I was thinking MOrdor since like, every clear space you find in Baltimore there are people trying to build stuff there (or maybe that would be Isengard?). But, when you get closer to my house, near the bay, It has really pretty trees and fields. And at night, all you can see are stars and the moon. Maybe Mirkwood, or Lothlorien, although I think my grandparents house in the Upper Penninsula of Michigan is more like Lothlorien. But everyone in my neighborhood is really nice. Except that one lady. She always says my cats....oh nevermind

I really don't know.

Aylwen

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dragoneyes · 11-03-2002, 11:25 AM

I live in (well, more on the edge of) a small-ish village, there are lots of feilds around and just down the road are the waterr-meadows, where the cows are always out and about. But a few of the people are quite nasty, sounds a bit like Gondor.

hobbitlass · 11-03-2002, 12:48 PM

Aylwen Dreamsong, could that lady be Lobelia Sackville-Baggins?! A cranky sort?

Bill Ferny · 11-03-2002, 01:00 PM

I don't know about where I currently live. Probably Rohan. Where I grew up, rural Ohio, was definitely Nurn. We grew the crops for the armies of darkness.

Orodoliel · 11-03-2002, 01:19 PM

I consider the countryside around where I live to be very Shire-like. There are lots of wheat fields, and small villages.

Cúdae · 11-03-2002, 02:04 PM

Where I live is suburban with absolutely nothing Middle-Earthish about it--if you don't look closely and use your imagination. My town park (if you forget about the cars going by...) is a lot like the Shire. Everything is very green and rolling (until winter, then everything's dead). The downtown section of where I live is very old fashioned and the decoration on the buildings reminds me of Rivendell. Behind my house is a small wood that is choked and dark all of the time. When I go through there, I think of Mirkwood. If one chooses to walk up towards the "nicer" section of town, the houses become quite large and elegant, more fit for royalty than some suburbans who commute 2 hours a day to a major law firm in Boston. One particular house makes me think of Numenor (did I spell that right?). Going back to the park for a moment, there is a hill surrounded by trees that always has sun. Lothlorien anyone?
So you see, you can find Middle-Earth anywhere.

Arwen Imladris · 11-03-2002, 09:48 PM

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I'm from Ontario, and my town is pretty cottage country

I am north of cottage country! (hehe I love saying that!)

I have probebly been through your town on me way to Toronto! (no, I am not stalking you.)

Eruialiwen · 11-05-2002, 09:26 PM

I think where I live resembles the Shire and vice-versa (I'm in Virginia near the Shenandoah Valley). But sitting in the middle of the Blue Ridge Mts., it's a bit like the Misty Mountains as well with all the clouds straggling over the peaks all the time [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Meela · 11-08-2002, 03:34 PM

to the south of my house is a cross between the shire and rohan and north of the shire to the misty mountains area... i think, and some lothlorien/rivendell/mirkwood.
to the north is minas tirith and gondor-style/rohan-style area.
to the east is gondor/rohan-style area, and some other stuff.... i think.
to the west is arnor/rohan/gondor/shire/bree-misty mts. area.

i live between gondor and rohan [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

The-Elf-Herself · 11-08-2002, 04:52 PM

Hmmm, how to describe rural Central PA... Probably the Shire. It's all farmland, rolling hills, streams, Amish buggies and the like out here. Nosy people, cranky senior citizens, and an attitude not conducive to change. Yes, definitely the Shire(that might explain why I'm so restless; I'm more of a seashore person [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] ).

Eruwen · 11-09-2002, 10:20 AM

Well, I live in a quite SMALL town. It, I think, most resembles Crickhollow. Ya know, very few houses around with woods right behind your house. It would be either that or Hobbiton. But Hobbiton has WAY too cool of landscapes around to be my neighborhood.

Baran · 11-11-2002, 02:43 AM

Inot sure what The North of Norway resembles, although you could probably have found a place like this in middle-earth. Maybe the coasts north-west, north of Cirdan's place...?

orlandoandsaran · 11-11-2002, 03:01 AM

Well, what place resembles something from Middle-earth which has a sea nearby and a town near it?
Over here there are also forests, cold wind and shopping malls.

lathspell · 11-13-2002, 05:57 AM

I live in Holland, in the West to be exact. And it resembles the Shire the best of all things in M-e, I guess. Lots of Pools, villages (and cities). Some forests and other Shiry things. And I live not too far from the Sea (not far at all actually).

11-13-2002, 08:15 AM

probaly like dunland or rohan

11-13-2002, 08:23 AM

I live in the country of southern georgia. We own more than 100 acres of forest. There are soooo many different places in Middle-Earth that would have looked like my woods. There is one area of about 10 acres that looks like Lothlorien or Rivendell, there are huge grassy hills beside a creek in another part that remind me of the shire, then there are the parts of my forest that are tangled and overgrown and remind me of Mirkwood...maybe THIS is why I've decided to make a LoTR parody movie and film it on my land. Anyone wants to help out with it? Just e-mail me at redheaded_poetgirl@hotmail.com

VanimaEdhel · 11-13-2002, 06:19 PM

Hmmm...a mix of Rivendell and Mirkwood...until you go into town: then it resembles nothing Middle-Earthy: too darn ugly and poor...but: I live in the woods on a mountain, and it's very pretty at the moment...I live in the small upper-middle class area of my poor, unknown town...

TolkienGurl · 11-13-2002, 07:36 PM

On the way home from school, which is about an hour from where I live, I saw a round spot in a forest where there grew no trees, just grasses, and weeds, and brambles. It reminded me of the Bonfire Glade in the Old Forest!

Neferchoirwen · 11-13-2002, 08:37 PM

I've been trying to put more thought into what my home looks like: It actually looks like the Shire, but room looks like a bedroom out of Rivendell: at 4 to 5 pm, the light ledges itself into my room, giving it a mysterious glow.

Our backyard looks pretty much like the Shire, with the trees, and the clothesline, and with my dogs lounging all over the place.

elsye · 11-13-2002, 11:51 PM

I'm not 100% percent sure what my home resembles. I live at the bottom of the Olympic mountains in Washington st. and my house is surrounded by trees with a short trail to a couple of meadows and a river, where i go to pick mushrooms. It's also got a valley just east of the house. what do you think?

TolkienGurl · 11-14-2002, 01:50 PM

Maybe Rivendell? That's kind of what it sounds like, with mountains and all. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] I want to see mountains!

Aramacil · 11-14-2002, 02:04 PM

I agree with lathspell,I live in Holland and it would probably mostly resembles the shire, with the fields and villages.
But it's much flatter, we really miss the hobbithills here. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

Galadriel9 · 11-14-2002, 02:22 PM

Hi, by the way, I'm new, this is such a lush site by the way! Anyway, I live in Wales and parts of it are SO like I imagined Mordor. There is this one bit v.near my house which is a branch off a nature trail and I reckon its quite like Lothlorien, when the cars cease for a moment, all is still and all you can hear is the wind whispering in the trees, its lush, anyway, I'm really chuffed that I'm a member now, so I'm gonna go and join some more discussions, take care all, love ME!

Orual · 11-14-2002, 04:32 PM

Welcome to the Barrow-Downs Galadriel9!!

Where I live most resembles...Midgewater. Lots of small biting insects. Blech.

However, since it's Midgewater, that means that it's not too far from the Shire! Lots of nice small towns around. I wouldn't move. I'd just move the bugs.

~*~Orual~*~

Arwen Imladris · 11-14-2002, 04:38 PM

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this is such a lush site

Does anyone else find this the slightest bit amusing?
lush

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11-02-2002, 11:20 AM	#1
Lhunbelethiel Wight Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: San Francisco Bay Area (aka Bay of Belfalas) Posts: 103	What place in Middle Earth most resembles where you live? Is there a place in ME that looks like the place where you live? I'd have to say I live in a place like the Bay of Belfalas, but with lots of rolling hills all around. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] __________________ ~~All that is gold does not glitter, not all who wander are lost, all that is old does not wither, deep roots are not touched by the frost...~~

11-02-2002, 12:35 PM	#2
LePetitChoux Vegetable of Doom Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: London Posts: 720	I guess the closest thing to London would be a big city like Minas Tirith... __________________ je suis une bonne odeur

11-02-2002, 01:02 PM	#3
Sleeping Beauty Wight Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Somewhere between the back of the chair and the monitor Posts: 115	The closest place in Middle-Earth to where I live would be Mirkwood. I live way back in the woods, so it fits. They can be really dark, especially at night, so I hope there are no huge spiders...@_@ [ November 02, 2002: Message edited by: Sleeping Beauty ] __________________ "If I knew all of the answers, I'd run for God." ~ Klinger: MAS*H

11-02-2002, 02:54 PM	#4
Meela Denethor's True Love Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Mirkwood. With Thranduil... swoon Posts: 2,049	scotland is arnor, wales is mordor (Black Mt.s a biiiig giveaway...), south west is the shire, although i do kinda live in minas tirith..., south east is gondor, north west of england (lake district style) is mirkwood, middle east area (between newcastle and nottingham (?)) is lothlorien, birmingham area and newcastle area is dwarfiness, and the centre (between southampton, derbyshire, bristol-ish, and nottingham-ish) is where rivendell should be, cos theres nowhere else my nottingham is just above the east anglia 'bump' that sticks out of the coast in the south east. if its not right, take my nottingham as watever is above the bump. ireland is the undying lands. if ure american (usa only), east-s.east is gondor, north east is lothlorien, north is dwarfiness, north west is mirkwood, west is nothing as such, south west is rohan, and south is arnor. mordor doesnt exist unless it is the west. (added note- rivendell is in the west.) europe as a whole- scandinavia = arnor. british isles = the shire. spain = rohan. italy = gondor. russia = wastelands and some dwarfiness in the west. germany = dwarf also. france = shire and around, also. austria, and switzerland, etc. = mirkwood. belgium and the netherlands = rivendell. bulgaria, transylvania, etc. = lothlorien area. malta = undying lands. mordor is somewhere in far eastern-ish europe. sorry if i forgot anything. __________________ 'The Hobbit' 1st impressions: 1. Thorin is hot... Oh god, I fancy a dwarf. 2. Thranduil is hotter. 3. Is that... Figwit! 4. Does Elijah Wood never age? 2nd: It's all about Fili & Kili, really. 3rd: BARD! OMG, Bard.

11-02-2002, 03:14 PM	#6
Manwe Sulimo Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Taurelilómëa-tumbalemorna Tumbaletaurëa Lómëanor Posts: 553	Meela, NE USA more closely resembles the Far Downs (the Shire-ish feel, with mountains in the background). Lórien, we certainly are not. __________________ "Monkeys learn sign language so they can tell the dolphins they love them."

11-02-2002, 03:27 PM	#7
InklingElf Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 402	hmmmm what could California be?-probably the Mist Mountains for the bay area...

11-02-2002, 03:31 PM	#9
InklingElf Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 402	ooooh ic -for the forest umm I think the place where the Red Wood trees are will fit just right w/ Mirkwood...

11-02-2002, 03:52 PM	#10
Arwen Imladris Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: In a box with a fox Posts: 1,347	I live in Canada, Ontario. We have lots o trees, not mainy big mountains but hills we have as well as a few flat farmland type of thing. Perhaps in Doriath? Either that or the Shire or Mirkwood, Lothlorien... __________________ "Wake up! Wake up! Wake up, sleepies, we must go, yes, we must go at once."

11-02-2002, 03:53 PM	#11
Galadrie1 Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: The wrong place at the wrong time. Posts: 385	There's lots of forest around where I live, so I guess it's like Mirkwood. But I find the people here are very opposed to change, and a lot of them don't like leaving the area, so in that sense it's more like the Shire. __________________ "For this is what your folk would call magic, I believe; though I do not understand clearly what they mean; and they seem to use the same word of the deceits of the Enemy. But this, if you will, is the magic of Galadriel."

11-02-2002, 10:19 PM	#12
tangerine Haunting Spirit Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 100	I'm from Ontario, and my town is pretty cottage country, and many people have never gone outside it, though you kinda have to the go to high school. I'd say it's a pretty fair version of the Shire.

11-03-2002, 09:13 AM	#13
Lindril Arvilya Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: In a box at the end of Harrison Ford's street, with a pair of binoculars Posts: 332	I too am from Ontario, but I'd say I'm on top of one of the Misty Mountains. Or Caradhras. You should see the whiteout this morning. __________________ Neo, watch out! Trinity's going to steal your pants! Pants thief! Pants thief!

11-03-2002, 10:08 AM	#14
Selmo Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: The Shire (Staffordshire), United Kingdom Posts: 273	I live on the edge of a city where traditional industries, coal mining, iron & steel making, quarrying and ceramics, are in decline. Much of it seems like Mordor on a bad day. But just a mile from my house are quiet, small fields and little woods and good people; The Shire.

11-03-2002, 10:29 AM	#15
vanwalossien Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: middle of Nowhere/Norway Posts: 372	I live in eastern Norway, in a place that is sorta Shire-ish, or maybe around Bree someplace. __________________ "The ships hung in the air in much the same way as bricks don't"

11-03-2002, 10:55 AM	#16
Aylwen Dreamsong The Melody of Misery Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: The Island of Conclusions (You get there by jumping!)... Posts: 1,147	well, I live in Maryland USA. At first I was thinking MOrdor since like, every clear space you find in Baltimore there are people trying to build stuff there (or maybe that would be Isengard?). But, when you get closer to my house, near the bay, It has really pretty trees and fields. And at night, all you can see are stars and the moon. Maybe Mirkwood, or Lothlorien, although I think my grandparents house in the Upper Penninsula of Michigan is more like Lothlorien. But everyone in my neighborhood is really nice. Except that one lady. She always says my cats....oh nevermind I really don't know. Aylwen [ November 03, 2002: Message edited by: Aylwen Dreamsong ] __________________ ...Come down now, they'll say. But everything looks perfect from far away - Come down now! But we'll stay.

11-03-2002, 11:25 AM	#17
dragoneyes Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Completely lost track, sorry! Posts: 733	I live in (well, more on the edge of) a small-ish village, there are lots of feilds around and just down the road are the waterr-meadows, where the cows are always out and about. But a few of the people are quite nasty, sounds a bit like Gondor. __________________ "We might succeed in roasting Pippin alive inside." - Frodo.

11-03-2002, 12:48 PM	#18
hobbitlass Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: next to the fire keeping warm Posts: 471	Aylwen Dreamsong, could that lady be Lobelia Sackville-Baggins?! A cranky sort? __________________ Just because a person has the right to do something doesn't make it the right thing to do.

11-03-2002, 01:00 PM	#19
Bill Ferny Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Bree Posts: 390	I don't know about where I currently live. Probably Rohan. Where I grew up, rural Ohio, was definitely Nurn. We grew the crops for the armies of darkness. __________________ I prefer Gillaume d’Férny, connoisseur of fine fruit.

11-03-2002, 01:19 PM	#20
Orodoliel Haunting Spirit Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Rivendell Posts: 61	I consider the countryside around where I live to be very Shire-like. There are lots of wheat fields, and small villages. __________________ "Well, I'm back."

11-03-2002, 02:04 PM	#21
Cúdae Wight Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Boston, Massachusetts Posts: 160	Where I live is suburban with absolutely nothing Middle-Earthish about it--if you don't look closely and use your imagination. My town park (if you forget about the cars going by...) is a lot like the Shire. Everything is very green and rolling (until winter, then everything's dead). The downtown section of where I live is very old fashioned and the decoration on the buildings reminds me of Rivendell. Behind my house is a small wood that is choked and dark all of the time. When I go through there, I think of Mirkwood. If one chooses to walk up towards the "nicer" section of town, the houses become quite large and elegant, more fit for royalty than some suburbans who commute 2 hours a day to a major law firm in Boston. One particular house makes me think of Numenor (did I spell that right?). Going back to the park for a moment, there is a hill surrounded by trees that always has sun. Lothlorien anyone? So you see, you can find Middle-Earth anywhere. __________________ "And if you listen very hard/ The tune will come to you at last/ When all are one and one is all/ To be a rock and not to roll." --Led Zeppelin "Stairway to Heaven"

11-05-2002, 09:26 PM	#23
Eruialiwen Haunting Spirit Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Mirkwood, Virginia Posts: 71	I think where I live resembles the Shire and vice-versa (I'm in Virginia near the Shenandoah Valley). But sitting in the middle of the Blue Ridge Mts., it's a bit like the Misty Mountains as well with all the clouds straggling over the peaks all the time [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] __________________ ~'%From the mouths of the Sea the South Wind flies, from the sandhills and the stones; The wailing of the gulls it bears, and at the gate it moans.%'~

11-08-2002, 03:34 PM	#24
Meela Denethor's True Love Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Mirkwood. With Thranduil... swoon Posts: 2,049	to the south of my house is a cross between the shire and rohan and north of the shire to the misty mountains area... i think, and some lothlorien/rivendell/mirkwood. to the north is minas tirith and gondor-style/rohan-style area. to the east is gondor/rohan-style area, and some other stuff.... i think. to the west is arnor/rohan/gondor/shire/bree-misty mts. area. i live between gondor and rohan [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] __________________ 'The Hobbit' 1st impressions: 1. Thorin is hot... Oh god, I fancy a dwarf. 2. Thranduil is hotter. 3. Is that... Figwit! 4. Does Elijah Wood never age? 2nd: It's all about Fili & Kili, really. 3rd: BARD! OMG, Bard.

11-08-2002, 04:52 PM	#25
The-Elf-Herself Haunting Spirit Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mithlond Posts: 74	Hmmm, how to describe rural Central PA... Probably the Shire. It's all farmland, rolling hills, streams, Amish buggies and the like out here. Nosy people, cranky senior citizens, and an attitude not conducive to change. Yes, definitely the Shire(that might explain why I'm so restless; I'm more of a seashore person [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] ). __________________ Go here http://www.geocities.com/sunlit_rain/home_page for songs translated into elvish.~Eruantale Aranìs Oronlamba~

11-09-2002, 10:20 AM	#26
Eruwen Registered User Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 892	Well, I live in a quite SMALL town. It, I think, most resembles Crickhollow. Ya know, very few houses around with woods right behind your house. It would be either that or Hobbiton. But Hobbiton has WAY too cool of landscapes around to be my neighborhood.

11-11-2002, 02:43 AM	#27
Baran Haunting Spirit Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Mordor/Lothlorien Posts: 71	Inot sure what The North of Norway resembles, although you could probably have found a place like this in middle-earth. Maybe the coasts north-west, north of Cirdan's place...?

11-11-2002, 03:01 AM	#28
orlandoandsaran Haunting Spirit Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Greenwood Home Posts: 91	Well, what place resembles something from Middle-earth which has a sea nearby and a town near it? Over here there are also forests, cold wind and shopping malls. __________________ Vor\|otwen Bloom spouse of Orlando Bloom.

11-13-2002, 05:57 AM	#29
lathspell Regenerating Ringkeeper Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Holland Posts: 757	I live in Holland, in the West to be exact. And it resembles the Shire the best of all things in M-e, I guess. Lots of Pools, villages (and cities). Some forests and other Shiry things. And I live not too far from the Sea (not far at all actually). __________________ 'You?' cried Frodo. 'Yes, I, Gandalf the Grey,' said the wizard solemnly. 'There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have not yet been measured. But my time is coming.'

11-13-2002, 08:15 AM	#30
Balrog of Khazadum Guest Posts: n/a	probaly like dunland or rohan

11-13-2002, 08:23 AM	#31
Elana Guest Posts: n/a	I live in the country of southern georgia. We own more than 100 acres of forest. There are soooo many different places in Middle-Earth that would have looked like my woods. There is one area of about 10 acres that looks like Lothlorien or Rivendell, there are huge grassy hills beside a creek in another part that remind me of the shire, then there are the parts of my forest that are tangled and overgrown and remind me of Mirkwood...maybe THIS is why I've decided to make a LoTR parody movie and film it on my land. Anyone wants to help out with it? Just e-mail me at redheaded_poetgirl@hotmail.com

11-13-2002, 06:19 PM	#32
VanimaEdhel Etheral Enchantress Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Wellesley College! Posts: 1,461	Hmmm...a mix of Rivendell and Mirkwood...until you go into town: then it resembles nothing Middle-Earthy: too darn ugly and poor...but: I live in the woods on a mountain, and it's very pretty at the moment...I live in the small upper-middle class area of my poor, unknown town... __________________ "I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each others dreams, we can be together all the time." - Hobbes of Calvin and Hobbes

11-13-2002, 07:36 PM	#33
TolkienGurl Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Michigan, USA Posts: 637	On the way home from school, which is about an hour from where I live, I saw a round spot in a forest where there grew no trees, just grasses, and weeds, and brambles. It reminded me of the Bonfire Glade in the Old Forest! __________________ Hopes fail. An end comes. We have only a little time to wait now. We are lost in ruin and downfall and there is no escape. -Frodo My Livejournal

11-13-2002, 08:37 PM	#34
Neferchoirwen Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: RtR: 483.3 miles, Fords of Bruinen Posts: 512	I've been trying to put more thought into what my home looks like: It actually looks like the Shire, but room looks like a bedroom out of Rivendell: at 4 to 5 pm, the light ledges itself into my room, giving it a mysterious glow. Our backyard looks pretty much like the Shire, with the trees, and the clothesline, and with my dogs lounging all over the place. __________________ On really romantic nights of self, I go salsa dancing with my confusion. ~Speed Levitch http://crevicesofsilence.blogspot.com/

11-13-2002, 11:51 PM	#35
elsye Animated Skeleton Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Port of Angels Posts: 28	I'm not 100% percent sure what my home resembles. I live at the bottom of the Olympic mountains in Washington st. and my house is surrounded by trees with a short trail to a couple of meadows and a river, where i go to pick mushrooms. It's also got a valley just east of the house. what do you think? __________________ Is there anything greater than the love of Jesus?

11-14-2002, 01:50 PM	#36
TolkienGurl Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Michigan, USA Posts: 637	Maybe Rivendell? That's kind of what it sounds like, with mountains and all. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] I want to see mountains! __________________ Hopes fail. An end comes. We have only a little time to wait now. We are lost in ruin and downfall and there is no escape. -Frodo My Livejournal

11-14-2002, 02:04 PM	#37
Aramacil Wight Join Date: May 2002 Location: Holland Posts: 131	I agree with lathspell,I live in Holland and it would probably mostly resembles the shire, with the fields and villages. But it's much flatter, we really miss the hobbithills here. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] __________________ "I will take the Ring," he said, "though I do not know the way."

11-14-2002, 02:22 PM	#38
Galadriel9 Haunting Spirit Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: UK Posts: 62	Hi, by the way, I'm new, this is such a lush site by the way! Anyway, I live in Wales and parts of it are SO like I imagined Mordor. There is this one bit v.near my house which is a branch off a nature trail and I reckon its quite like Lothlorien, when the cars cease for a moment, all is still and all you can hear is the wind whispering in the trees, its lush, anyway, I'm really chuffed that I'm a member now, so I'm gonna go and join some more discussions, take care all, love ME! __________________ Why do they call the small candy bars the "fun sizes"? Wouldn't be more fun to eat a big one?