What place in Middle Earth most resembles where you live? [Archive]

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.

leslie_hobbit_lass

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. "Fool of a Took! Throw yourself in next time and rid us of your stupidity!" Gandalf

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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

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 smilies/smile.gif

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 smilies/biggrin.gif

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 smilies/wink.gif ).

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).

Balrog of Khazadum

11-13-2002, 08:15 AM

probaly like dunland or rohan

Elana

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. smilies/biggrin.gif 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. smilies/rolleyes.gif

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

this is such a lush site

Does anyone else find this the slightest bit amusing?
lush

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Marillanna Sarnie

11-14-2002, 05:05 PM

Well, Winnipeg (Manitoba, Canada) really doesn't resemble much, except right now, with the weather (today being snow-covered, and a balmy -20 C with the windchill) in winter, it's like the Helcaraxe, all the ice, snow....(sigh).

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InklingElf

11-14-2002, 06:06 PM

ummm let's see

since I'm from California the Redwood forest could be Mirkwood or Lothlorien -very tall trees!!!! smilies/smile.gif and since i'm near the bay and there are some mountatins around it could be Bruinen-very foggy/misty too!!! smilies/wink.gif

Morelen

11-14-2002, 07:49 PM

Well, right now, my town resembles Lothlorien. There are alot of golden leavd trees here.In the spring it looks like the Shire.

Novlamothien

11-14-2002, 08:05 PM

Let's see, I live in N. GA USA, and I am really close to the Blue Ridge Mountains. I have to agree that they look like the Misty Mountains. There are a ton of little towns all around there, and it is heavily wooded. I live in a very booming town, almost in the country (cow fields outside our neighborhood). Maybe Minas Tirith? can anyone help me? It looks like the Shire with the fields, but only a little bit.

Namarie
Erin

Túroch

11-14-2002, 08:54 PM

I live in Tulsa, Oklahoma on a hilly edge of the great plains. So probably more akin to the Wesr Emnet in Rohan. Tulsa is a sizable city alought not very compact. I'd say I live in Edoras.

Ringannunwen

11-15-2002, 05:46 AM

hobbiton. apart from the fact that every thing is being buldozed(allthe trees and stuff)to make room for more houses smilies/confused.gif

briananoel

11-15-2002, 07:38 PM

I live in Long Beach, CA, near a busy street, so there's not much of Middle Earth anywhere. smilies/rolleyes.gif But about a block away there's an old abandoned shack that makes me think of Tom Bombadil's house (even though there's no forest)

Samwise

11-15-2002, 08:21 PM

Tough. When I was little, there was green grass and flowers for miles around my house, and mostly children in my neighborhood. Just a few miles away, there are large hills (which the people here refer to as the "Sonoma Mountains"). Then, it was more like Hobbiton, I suppose. Now, there are houses built all around, and busy, busy, busy, and all sorts of people of--well, all sorts. Guess now it's more like Bree.

Grendel

11-15-2002, 08:48 PM

I live in Bree, I suppose. The village is built on a hill and the inhabitants resemble either hobbits or bree-folk. What's more, Archet(the wood) is very close to the local Breton "ar goat" or "ar choat" (depending on dialect) meaning simply 'the wood'.
Mind you it could be the Shire ... low hills, valleys, woods, hedges, small fields and little rivers.

Grendel

11-15-2002, 09:08 PM

I forgot to mention that the country of Rohan lies a short distance South from the village and that the castle of Rohan (the fortress of the Dukes of Rohan) is very impressive. I wonder if Tolkien knew of it? He certaiinly visited brittany at least once.

Jeli Baggins

11-15-2002, 10:39 PM

Eruwen, would you mind telling me what site you got your picture from? It's really cool.

Ok. My town really doesn't remind me of anything Middle Earthish. smilies/frown.gif But I live in south New Jersey, and there are soooo many farms around there. You know, the Shire stuff. And the campgrouds are really cool to film "scenes" from the movie in. Which I have already tried. smilies/wink.gif I can't wait until I can travel everywhere. Espesally to all the awesome places in Europe.(and New Zealand!) A lot of places there remind me of Middle Earth. And a lot of you seem to live there.

Beruthiel

11-19-2002, 12:37 AM

Its really not fair, I live in Melbourne Australia and it doesn't resemble anything Middle-Earthish!! boohooo....
BUT in my school there is this HUMOUNGUS tree and it is exactly like the party tree in Hobitton which is pretty cool smilies/smile.gif

FarathrimMaiden

01-06-2003, 09:40 PM

I might just live in rivendell. Its not quite nice enough, but its nice and there is a river. Also lots of pretty wooded areas that make me think of maybe the orad to rivendell? It might be the shire a little cause its got fields all round, buit prolly more rivendell than shire. And of course, be cynical, a touch of mordor and isenguard.

Laialthriel

01-07-2003, 12:06 AM

Hey, great post by the way!
Ummm...let's see...Well, I'm in ID, USA so it is a mixture of a several places. If you've been here, you'd know what I mean. smilies/wink.gif It has the rolling hills of Hobbiton, but it's not quite green enough to be that (they're making us tear out our beautiful grass-fields smilies/mad.gif smilies/frown.gif ) and there's lots more trees. It definitely has some Rivendell places close by, but I guess it's mostly like Rohan. But a little greener. smilies/wink.gif Confused yet? smilies/rolleyes.gif Welcome to the Northwest. smilies/biggrin.gif

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Gorwingel

01-07-2003, 12:16 AM

I would say that where I live is probably like the old forest or Fangorn. It is very green with dense like woods, and old, very tall trees. I actually live near a place that looks very much like the way that they made Fangorn look in the film. We have trees that are covered with moss, and vines, and it is kind of dark. Maybe I have an Ent who lives near by smilies/rolleyes.gif

MLD-Grounds-Keeper-Willie

01-07-2003, 01:57 AM

Well, I like InnklingElf's and Lhunbelethiel's ideas. They make a lot of sense to me. And maybe they might see what I'm talking about. Have either of you ever been to Stern Grove, Mt. Daveidson, or Forest Hill? Ahh, so many memories...

I think that Mt. Dave represents the misty mts. because it can really get foggy up there, especially at night. Forest Hill and the Grove are like Mirkwood because it's very woody and we're like the elves having a grand old time and dissapearing and running when the cops, who are like the dwarves and Bilbo, show up. And then the Grove is like Rivendell because it's very woody and it's like a dell or a valley sort of. And Forest Hill reminds me a lot of The Old Forest (possibly Fangorn but not really) because it seems so strange sometimes.

And what about Golden Gate Park? That seems to remind me of Mirkwood, Fangorn, and the Old Forest. And Lake Merced reminds me of the lake outside the gates of Moria, and so does Pine lake in the Grove.

And the Shannon Arms reminds me a lot of the Prancing Pony. It just has that feel to it.

Well, that's all I can think of for now.

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Peacepoet

01-07-2003, 11:48 AM

I would say that this area I live in is most like Bree with it's stores and small homes. If one was to drive the 45 minutes to the Adirondacks, one would find themselves in very much a Mirkwood (or even in some of the more isolated areas a Fangorn) look to the area.

Arien

01-07-2003, 12:39 PM

I live on the outskirts of my town, we have lots of fields surrounding us, so I guess that Shire. But as you get closer to the centre of the town its more like Isenguard.

We have this really dark forest near us so I think thats most like Mirkwood. No one ever goes in there, and at night they say that witches go there.....thats just to scare little children though..... smilies/frown.gif isn't it smilies/frown.gif

Auriel Haevasawen

01-07-2003, 03:01 PM

I really do live in The Shire. I live near Sarehole, Moseley in Birmingham England. This was the place where Tolkien lived as a child. He played in Moseley Bog (A small wood) and used it as his inspiration for the shire in later life. He lived in Wake Green Road which is easy for me to walk to but I don't know which house. Unfortunately it is all built up around it with housing nowadays (Brum is England's second largest city and boy can you tell) but if you wander round the back of Sarehole Mill (the water mill is still there in the middle of this suburb!!)and into the parkland you can still imagine you are in the shire (if it wasn't for the noise of the traffic). The two towers are here too. One of them is in the University but no one has ever told me what the other one is as I am not a native of these parts. Any information gratefully recieved.
In my native lands in the north there is a huge gothic house called 'Cragside' in a wooded valley on the edge of the moors which I always thought of as like Rivendell as a child.
Sorry for rambling as usual.

MLD-Grounds-Keeper-Willie

01-07-2003, 07:03 PM

Oh yeah, Mt. Dave also reminds me a lot of Weathertop. And the redwood forests around the bay area (the ones that I've seen) very much remind me of Lothlorien.

Ithaeliel

01-07-2003, 07:19 PM

Well I think Boise and the Treasure Valley most resembles the Riddermark in Rohan, because it has a sort of steppe-like ring of foothills sparsely vegitated with sagebrush and stuff (although, no, there is no Edoras in the middle). Bogus Basin is definitely a big Caradhras, in the summer the mountains are like Mirkwood. We've got a bit of everything.

Pallando B.C

01-07-2003, 07:32 PM

Hmm, well I live in Tasmania (10 points for anyone who knows were that is) smilies/wink.gif . It resembles, I think, the Carrock where Beorn lives.

Legolas

01-07-2003, 07:34 PM

One of the cities in south or southwest Gondor beside of a river and not too far from the shores of the ocean. I live in a small town that would more resemble one of the cities on the west side of the Shire, but I say Gondor because the large city very nearby (Fayetteville, NC) is adjacent to Fort Bragg, the largest (or second largest?) military base in the United States of America. Pelargir maybe?

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MLD-Grounds-Keeper-Willie

01-07-2003, 08:49 PM

Isn't Tasmania South of Austrailia, but part of Ausrtailia? I think it is, and it looks like one big island with some smaller islands at the north east and north west, but going more north, I think. Well, did I get those 10pts? smilies/smile.gif

Samwise

01-07-2003, 08:50 PM

When I was a kid, our house backed up to a farmer's hayfield that in the summer was covered in wildflowers (a combo of the Shire and Farmer Maggot's land?) smilies/wink.gif About a mile away was a stand of eucalyptus trees that, as a kid, were much bigger than me, (my Hobbit self) and, thinking back on it, there were an awful lot of dangerous things there (rusted barbed wire, glass, nails...:rolleyes smilies/smile.gif Dangerous...could have been a relation of Fangorn? smilies/wink.gif

The Saucepan Man

01-07-2003, 09:42 PM

Since I live in the suburbs of London and Minis Tirith has been previously been equated to London, it would have to be a townland on the fields of Pelennor. I wouldn't exactly describe it as "fair and fertile" though smilies/frown.gif .

But I remember reading somewhere (can't remember where) that Tolkien saw the part of Middle Earth in which LotR takes place as Europe, with the Shire being England and Minis Tirith an Italian city (Venice?).

MLD-Grounds-Keeper-Willie

01-08-2003, 12:08 AM

Elanor

01-08-2003, 02:44 PM

Where I live now is most defintely not reminiscent of anywhere in Middle Earth. However, until I was about 18 I lived near an old disused slate quarry in North Wales, which was a perfect minature Mordor. At one point they were the largest slate quarries in the UK. Immediately behind our house were huge, dark slate tips, with huge chunks of unwanted slate. Climb a little up the hill (and over the fence, past the DANGER signs) and many hours of fun were to be had, climbing down into deep quarry holes, finding tunnels and caves to play in. There were some huge caves linked by tunnels, some flooded. Whenever the sky was really dark and stormy (let's face it, in Wales that is often smilies/smile.gif ) then it was very atmospheric. Ah, the many happy hours I spent up there, climbing up to Cirith Ungol, or hiding from the Nazgul....

Come to think of it, it was probably not the safest place to play. smilies/eek.gif

Pallando B.C

01-08-2003, 06:11 PM

Well, did I get those 10pts?

Yes, you got them, MLD-Grounds-Keeper-Willie

That's some really good geography skills you have.

nuguernachil

01-08-2003, 07:06 PM

nope. sadly, i don't live near anywhere that looks even remotely like a LOTR local (especially not rivendell... smilies/frown.gif

Tar-Palantir

01-08-2003, 08:39 PM

Wow, Samwise... you are just a stone's throw from my locale in Napa, Ca. I like to think of the city of Napa as Dale in the footsteps of Erebor, with Mt. St. Helena as The Lonely Mountain (I just know there are dwarves mining away in there) and the Napa river as the River Running. Not to mention the fact that we have wine here good enough to knock out a wood elf or two... smilies/eek.gif

Samwise

01-08-2003, 10:49 PM

-- Wow, Samwise... you are just a stone's throw from my locale in Napa, Ca.
Really, Mr. Palantir, sir? (or are you a Miss?) smilies/wink.gif Wow! Think you may be the closest to me, yet! (though, funny--the only 'Downer I've ever met in person lives two states away from me...an' it's an evening I won't soon forget, Miss Rae.) smilies/wink.gif

Samwise

01-08-2003, 10:55 PM

Wow Samwise, you live in Petaluma. So close. My cousins live up there. THe hills over in that side of the bay in Marin County remind me a little bit of the hills in Rohan in the movie. Do you agree?
Wow. That's two! I can't say about the hills, as I generally don't travel that far, but the hills (aka the Sonoma "Mountains") just a few miles behind my home could very well have some Hobbit holes dug into them. smilies/wink.gif

Sindafalathiel

01-09-2003, 03:35 PM

Hmmm...I'd have to say I live outside of Rohan, because almost EVERYONE in my neighborhood either has a horse (or two...) or lives on a horse farm. However, I live 2 miles away from a small historical town, and 30 minutes away from Washington, D.C (on a good day).

Saenla

01-09-2003, 05:42 PM

hmmmm...well, it's acording the where around me.... I live at the far east of ME (Maine, not Middle Earth ;-) though, I'm highly amused by that))

THere's one place that's by my house where it's just this huge forest, and my aunt and uncle own land with a small lake (more like pond) and again the huge forest....

THAN, right behind my house is the beach/ocean...but it's a rocky one... so I'm not really sure... BUT...

there's a place on the borders of Maine called Fryburg...and with the mountians and lake it's just breath taking... I felt like I was in the old ages, when the elves were in thier prime, looking into the distance.... okie... so I'm odd!

Yavanna Kementari

01-09-2003, 07:01 PM

I live in the Appalachian Mountains ( The Misty Mountains) and there is a lots of old deep forest,(Mirkwood) rolling hills and lots of lush green farmland,( The Shire) wide plains with horse pastures like Rohan, there are deep ravines like that unto Imladris, there is an all white oak forest not far that is like Loth Lorien,
And THE WEIRDEST woods a few miles from my house like Fangorn.

I live in a small town, It is a very peaceful community but the people are rough and not always polite like the Wild Men of Brethil and up town is like MORDOR!!

There River is About 20 miles away,like Anduin.

There were many Bloody battles here, so in a history stand point might be like Gondor.

I don't know I have a pretty good mix of middle earth. smilies/smile.gif You decide!!!

Carrûn

01-09-2003, 07:09 PM

I always thought of the area I lived as the Shire - lots of rolling hills, lots of farms & fields with the scattered forests here and there. Also in the back of my parents' property is an incredibly thick and old forest which always reminded me of the Old Forest.

Beruthiel

01-09-2003, 07:24 PM

There's a new road(which is actually completely a waste of money) being built in my town and they have to chop down lots of beautiful old trees. I kept thinking Saruman cutting down some of Fangorn forest.... smilies/mad.gif

Luthien

01-09-2003, 10:08 PM

Shire all the way, right down to the short pudgy farmer folk that live around central missouri. I live on a hill in the country with a forest and a brook(anduin of course), the trees are a mix of the old forest and lothlorien. I have yet more hills that remind me of rohan. I really do enjoy reading the lord of the rings to my trees(just in case they listen.)

Balin999

01-10-2003, 11:09 AM

My grandparents more or less live in the shire, with a lot of forests and a lot of green, untouched nature.
20 miles away from them there are mountains that remind me very strongly of the Misty Mountains, a lot of Snow in Winter and naked stone in Summer.
Luckily there is now Mordor where I live. smilies/smile.gif

Tar-Palantir

01-10-2003, 01:55 PM

Really, Mr. Palantir, sir? (or are you a Miss?)

And here I thought I had a suitably masculine name, back to the drawing board I suppose... smilies/rolleyes.gif

(though, funny--the only 'Downer I've ever met in person lives two states away from me...an' it's an evening I won't soon forget, Miss Rae.)

Sounds like something I might travel two states for as well. *nods in recognition of the prowess of Samwise*

excheeto

01-10-2003, 06:49 PM

well,around here,the town areas a lot like Bree(just the feel of it reminds me of it)when you get in the boonies,it's a little Shire like(with hills and everything)

the hobbits would love the budwieser factory in "Bree",although the "inns"aren't quite as respectable(unless there's a Babydolls in Hobbiton that I overlooked)

I need a good forest....

Samwise

01-10-2003, 11:26 PM

My mistake, Mr. Palantir, sir, as I'm not as farmiliar with languages an' such. However, masculine names don't necessarily mean much (I'm a she, as is a good friend of mine on here, Frodo Baggins) smilies/wink.gif...

Frodess

01-11-2003, 01:53 PM

Mordor most resembles where I live. smilies/biggrin.gif It often feels like it!

Iarwain

01-12-2003, 02:56 PM

i live in a place very much like osgiliath at its peak.

Fincarnwen

01-13-2003, 03:30 PM

My flat is surrounded by trees, so I'd say Rivendell or Lorien... smilies/smile.gif

Alphaelin

01-14-2003, 02:44 AM

I live in Nebraska in the US, so I would have to say I live in or near Rohan.

Cibbwin

01-15-2003, 01:57 AM

My home definitley resembles the far downs as well, although not as many hills. We do have big mountains all around, though. I live in California, an hour and a half east of L.A.

luin'loki

02-02-2003, 07:39 PM

The place that best describes where I live is Hobbiton.It does so because,I live in the country,am sourounded by rolling green hills,very beautiful place.Where I used to live was most like Mirkwood. **sigh** I remember where I used to pretend I was in the palace.it was right in the middle of the brush.**sigh**.Trees everywhere.A path that runs through straight to my old cabin.Extremely beautiful.I'm going to move back to the brush in Rodney and start to build a large cabin there. smilies/rolleyes.gif smilies/rolleyes.gif smilies/rolleyes.gif smilies/rolleyes.gif smilies/rolleyes.gif smilies/rolleyes.gif smilies/rolleyes.gif smilies/rolleyes.gif

Aredhelaran

02-06-2003, 03:45 PM

I live 1/2 outside of Albany, Ny. It is pretty rugged out tehre. If there were no woods adn huge ugly boulders it might look a little like the Shire (rolling hills) bu then you got the sharp ridges and coyotes and bears. I think we would live near the Northern end of the foothills of the Misty Mountains. Of course, my bedroom looks a bit like Mordor smilies/smile.gif smilies/smile.gif

doug*platypus

02-11-2003, 04:32 AM

ALL OF IT!

I live in Aotearoa/New Zealand.

the witch king

02-11-2003, 05:08 AM

I live in northen england, and in my local area there are many runes and some thing in the land scape just reminds me of Arnor (Weather Hills), but i was born in Galway (west Ireland) and i think that is so much like the Barrow Downs

Vardamar

02-11-2003, 06:14 AM

I live in the Shire. A shire invaded by Saruman. With this areas, Northwest Indiana, trees farms and hills it look just like the Shire. But with it big time industrialization it seems as if Saruman has invaded it. Anyone else wonder why when a new store open up they always clear an area and build a new building, when there are plenty of empty building next door?

Naldoriathil

02-11-2003, 06:35 AM

Minis Tirith would be the one for me. When I Read the book I always think of my home town when I read about Gondor or Osgiliath. Keep going people!

Lossenorodion

02-14-2003, 11:44 PM

im not quite sure but if there is a place with mountains and extreme hot and cold weather and rarely rainy days about 3 per month even though its getting bigger and faster each time,it is my home

Eressië Ailin

02-14-2003, 11:58 PM

I live in Dallas, TX now, and that feels soooooo much like Mordor. But I grew up in Nebraska, and it definately had a Shire-like feel. It was so weird when I moved, because I grew up just near a town, not in a town, and then I move to downtown Dallas.

[ February 15, 2003: Message edited by: Eressië Ailin ]

Helkahothion

02-15-2003, 08:46 AM

I know one thing,

My room looks like Moria. Filled with junk and dead things.

Greetings,

Anuion
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Fergo Baggins

02-15-2003, 03:57 PM

My corner of Louisiana = Dead Marshes

Especially on a day like today when my backyard is a stinky swamp.

Andephelien

02-16-2003, 05:44 PM

I guess you could say I live in the Shire covered with trees. With Bree as the city (although it is alot closer).

Lathriel

02-19-2003, 09:52 PM

I used to live in Southern Ontario and I had I conservation area right at the back of my house which I actually used to nickname the shire. For one it did have a big hill amd lots of other hills around it with trees. Where I live now in Alberta seems more like the area close to the misty mountains.

Lathriel

02-19-2003, 09:52 PM

Lathriel

02-19-2003, 09:55 PM

Sorry that I posted mine twice. My computer was being weird

Fair Eärendil

02-21-2003, 02:34 PM

The place where I used to live in México is very much like the Shire or the plains of Rohan, very much green in summer and lots of trees. Not at all like the Hollywood movies show México, they have distorted the image of that beautiful country. That place is in the mountains od Durango.

Eru

02-21-2003, 02:51 PM

i'm surronded by trees and such. but it's surronded by a city. i could walk for an hour and not be bothered. but i'm going to have to go with something like in the realm of Gondor, next to a small city. whereever that is...

avarrogion

02-21-2003, 09:00 PM

Well i live in a Condo and around the lot i live in is surrounded bt lots and lots of lot alike....so i dare say it feels like the Mines of Moria! smilies/biggrin.gif

Samwise

02-21-2003, 11:16 PM

Per "Mines of Moria!" quote above:

"There must have been a mighty crowd of dwarves here at one time," said Sam; "and every one of them busier than badgers for five hundred years to make al this, and most in hard rock, too! What did they do it all for? They didn't live in these darksome holes, surely? "

Sorry, couldn't resist throwing that in. smilies/biggrin.gif

Haelothiel

02-22-2003, 11:30 AM

I'm from the Shire, near the Old Forest! Hey, I figure that if I live about 8 miles from a small town and fields are in every direction except where "my" forest is, it sounds pretty good. According to someone I'm in dwarvish country, but I don't believe it.

peonydeepdelver

02-22-2003, 03:36 PM

my city resembles mordor, lol jk. no, probably osgiliath under attack w/ all the old brick buildings and potheads and hobos downtown. sad really, if you think about it. fortunately i live on the "better" part of town like 5 miles away smilies/rolleyes.gif

Imladrien

02-22-2003, 08:08 PM

I live on the northern fringes of Mirkwood...err....the New Jersey Pine Barrens. --Imladrien

Nimrodel

02-22-2003, 08:32 PM

The Brownlands look most like my home.

Lyta_Underhill

02-26-2003, 12:42 AM

Good evening! Greetings from somewhere near the foot of the Misty Mountains (well, some miles from them actually, in the foothills) in Tennessee, USA! I live on over 100 acres of land that resembles to me either the Old Forest just beyond Buckland or Fangorn forest. I am always on the lookout for Ents when I wander. There are some stone formations and one circle of stones at the top of a hill that I sometimes call Weathertop, although it isn't anyone's lookout post! Lots of small streams like the one Tom Bombadil is wandering along and perhaps some barrowdowns somewhere abouts here! I have found one Civil War relic--who knows? But I suppose the civil wars were in Gondor, weren't they? I'd love to find a blade of a Man of Westernesse up here, but it'd be rusted out from all the water! I'm also in search of the Entwash and a good Ent-draught (I'm still taller than Pippin though, and I've beat the Bullroarer by quite a bit now!) Great descriptions of places all over the world!

Cheers,
Lyta

Pukel-Man

02-26-2003, 01:00 AM

I live on The Plateau of Gorgoroth, but there are more Circle K's here than in Mordor.

GlingleglingleglingleFairy

02-27-2003, 11:01 PM

Well I really have no idea, I'm from Auckland, New Zealand and the closest place in Middle Earth would probably be something like the Bay of Belfalas because there's pretty much sea everywhere. Although the are the Waitakere Ranges which are quite big hills I don't think any of the trees and bush is anything like what Tolkien knew. Also, coming down from the Waitakeres (to the west) there's black sand beaches which are wild and go really cool and misty in the rain but aren't anything like the idea I get about the beaches/sea in Middle Earth. The beauty there is far more alien and wild than Mirkwood. (Picture grey sea to the west, black sand at your feet, musky-looking dunes slightly east and dark, dark green bush that up close is all tangled and filled with ferns and trees.) So, that was my bit, the beach I was thinking of, by the by, when I wrote that is called Muriwai and if you've ever watched Xena on t.v, most of it was filmed there. So long, and thanks for all the fish.

Ringethiriel

03-13-2003, 01:13 PM

i live in the south of england and i would say that the area that i live would most resemble the shire because it is quite hilly and green with small groups of houses. smilies/rolleyes.gif

Adutincowen

03-13-2003, 02:29 PM

I live in The Middle of Nowhere, Missouri, USA... I guess it looks.... similar to the Shire, all green and hilly... and unpopulated...

Chancellen the True

03-13-2003, 09:31 PM

I live in NYC, so it's Utummo, hands down, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

Gilbo

03-15-2003, 06:09 PM

Baltimore has likeness to all of Middle Earth. There are great statues and monuments to long dead kings. There are nice homey areas. There are parks full of green and growing things. There are tall towers full of evil wizards.There are, also orcs and Easterlings, and evil men, full of evil deeds.And,Eru be praised, Pipeweed for all!

Ruler of the Frogs

03-16-2003, 06:44 PM

I don't know - maybe someplace in Gondor? Anyway I live in a city. There are forests and stuff but not all around. If I just took my neighboorhood into account I would say Hobbiton, but I don't know all my neighboors and all that junk like a Hobbit wood. Definatly someplace in Gondor. smilies/biggrin.gif

Elyna of Rivendell

08-06-2013, 02:45 AM

Hmm, well I live in Tasmania (10 points for anyone who knows were that is) smilies/wink.gif . It resembles, I think, the Carrock where Beorn lives.

Haha i live in Tasmania too! I agree with you; it totally resembles what i imagine the Carrock would look like!;)

Mithalwen

08-09-2013, 01:35 PM

Nice exavation of an old thread Elyna! I havent neen to Tasmania...maybe if I am lucky enough to go Aus one day... I did think Gippsland in Victoria was very middle earthy.

I live between the sea and a forest which is lovely but not as dark as Mirkwood nor as ancient as Fangorn and too Northern for Ithilien so perhaps somewhere in Beleriand. The bit of coast I live on has a view of a large island so it could be somewhere inGondor with a view of Tolfalas but since it has an ancient and distimguished history of shipbuilding so I could go for the Havens of Sirion. certainly a lot of Cirdan clones about.