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Legolas in spandex 03-07-2006 03:13 PM

The greatest Land
 
Which land of Middle Earth do you find to be most captivating or mysterious?

Earendilyon 03-09-2006 02:50 AM

Most captivating: Angband (FA), Mordor (SA, TA)
Most mysterious: the Enchanted Isles

:D :D

yavanna II 03-15-2006 11:14 PM

Most captivating: Lorien (the one in Valinor, and the land of Galadriel)
Most mysterious: Numenor; the White Mountain where Manwe and Varda live; the Ring of Doom where the Valar hold council

:)

Valinor is the most mysterious and captivating for me....

:)

Legolas 03-20-2006 09:19 PM

Lothlorien on reading The Fellowship of the Ring the first time. The description was so capitvating and mysterious; it really caught my attention that first time as the Fellowship went on without Gandalf from the mountains (a familiar place as I had read The Hobbit already) - I still imagine the transition to be a capitvating and fantastic one. I thought this was captured beautifully in the movie - part of why it was my favourite of the films.

silverstorm 03-28-2006 12:55 PM

for me, it has to be the shire. anything concerning the elves will obviously be thought of as mysterious and beguiling. the shire and it's inhabitants prove to be the most enigmatic. as gandalf said himself, you can spend a month with hobbits,
and still not know them. the shire exudes an otherworldly charm, much the same as those native to it's lands.

Elu Ancalime 03-28-2006 02:48 PM

Khand: What kind of geography is it? From their breif description, they sound like Mongols, or other central asian nomads on horseback.

Rhun: This land that two wizards dissapeared into. What sort of temples and cities are here? Only Aragorn and Suruman could answer.

Harad: Land of Mumakil. Are their any ports or cities similar to the Swahilii city-states? If the Mumakil are here, what other sabertoothed cat or ape could one find in the desert or jungle?

Upper Misty mountains, Mts of Angmar/Carn Dum, Grey mountains: Gundaband? How grand is it compared to Khazad-dum? Could stand on a precipice on the grey mts, and look north to a tundra, and turn around to see a forest? Dragons bred there? How do dragons breed?

These land on the extremes of the map interest me so much.
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Legolas in spandex 04-07-2006 06:30 PM

I best like the house of Elrond (Not really a land) but I loved how Lothlorien had a dark and angelic beauty to it.

Tuor in Gondolin 04-08-2006 09:20 AM

Most captivating: Rhovannion in general and specifically
both the various polities of elves, men, and dwarves, and
how they seemed to generally ineract in such harmony (Hollin
on a grand scale).
Most mysterious: The area of the Sea of Rhun. Who lived
there at various times, what was it like, how might JRRT
have utilized it in other tales of Middle-earth, (how was
wine made there :D ), etc. Of course, as Tolkien observed,
that's part of the interest of Middle-earth, barely glimpsed areas,
vistas, stories.

Letty 05-31-2006 04:59 PM

Rivendell rocks!!!

ninja91 06-01-2006 05:22 AM

most captivating: Gondor
most mysterious: I would have to say Moria, because of the once great kingdom of dwarves that once dwelt there have all left their god-like halls
oh yeah, and lorien is pretty mysterious too. and creepy.
most interesting: Mordor

ArathorofBarahir 06-07-2006 11:27 AM

I would have to say that the most captivating lands, sorry can't choose just one, would have to the Shire, Bree and Rohan and the most mysterious land in all of Middle Earth would have to the Barrow-Downs.


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