A very beautiful and touching description of a landscape is given by Voronwë in U.T: the willow-meads of Nan-tathren, "lovely to heart's enchantment" where he nearly forgot his errand to the sea.
I love Tolkien's descriptions, they make me feel "inside" the scenery and the story, they are so real!
And not just the landscapes themselves, but the special mood in a certain moment is superbly caught.
e.g. in "The Riders of Rohan" :
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Turning back they saw across the River the far hills kindled. Day leaped into the sky. The red rim of the sun rose over the shoulders of the dark land. Before them in the West the world lay still, formless and grey; but even as they looked, the shadows of night melted, the colours of the waking earth returned: green flowed over the wide meads of Rohan; the white mists shimmered in the water-vales; and far off to the left, thirty leages or more, blue and purple stood the White Mountains, rising into peaks of jet, tipped with glimmering snows flushed with the rose of morning.
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