Middle Earth come to life

[Tigerlily Gamgee]

Oooo, I just came across this one last night while re-reading The Two Towers...

Here nothing lived, not even the leprous growths that feed on rottenness. The gasping pools were choked with ash and crawling muds, sickly white and grey, as if the mountains had vomited the filth of their entrails upon the lands about

Now that sure doesn't sound like a happy place to be visiting. Poor Sam and Frodo.