What about Middle-Earth/Valinor most inspires you?

[lindil]

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Wonderful postings, all!
Galpsi ,I know what you mean about Fla. I lived there for much of my 20's and finally fled to the col green and Lindon - like [or as much as america can be] Northwest.Orcas Island in particular a very Elvish place.

I have wondered just how much Annuminas was rebuilt.
The Dunedain native to Arnor could only have done so much-
[with possible help from Erebor]. I would imagine a small hidden village was all they had prior to Aragorn's High-Kingship{ a 'hidden fastness' is mentioned in the early draft of the Tale of Aragorn and Arwen} . Some second sons of nobility[among others] from Gondor could probably been induced to relocate north [or at least have summer estates !] and it could be that some of the remaiing Eldar would be less lonely there than Rivendell[ the sons of Elrond come immediately to mind] .
I can even imagine a shire colony although S. Gamgee's children had already stuck out for Westmarch. But seeing as Gondor was waning for hundreds of years prior to the 4th age it is hard to imagine more than a couple of thousand[ 1/3rd of the sizeof the army taken to Mordor!] people living there for the first generation or so.



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