Where in Middle-Earth do YOU live? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

The Perky Ent · 03-07-2004, 09:53 PM

Well, since I live in New Orleans, i guess i'd say i live in Osgiliath. It would be because there are tons of tall buildings, it's kinda near the dead marshes, and a river runs through it™!

03-21-2004, 05:01 PM

Hmmm well I live in New Zealand in a seaside city with rolling hills which really isnt much like anything in Middle Earth I dont think. But my holiday house further inland has snow tipped mountains, lakes and native forests, Its actually the location where Isengard was filmed so I guess my holiday house is Orthanc!

Thorongil · 03-22-2004, 11:46 AM

I live in Norway, in a kind of Mountainous region near the sea, with long inlets here and there. So it would probably around Lindon. A nice place, with a comforting distance to Mordor, and not a orc in sight.

Nimrothiel · 03-22-2004, 01:27 PM

Where I live it doesn't look like any specific place in ME; but the feel of the land changes with different kinds of weather. When it's cloudy it feels like Minas Tirith or the Dead Marshes; when it's sunny, Bree or the Shire ; when it's partly cloudy; Fangorn or Lorien. At night it feels the most like the Old Forest. However, there is one place in my town that looks and feels like Fangorn nearly all of the time; it alternates with Rivendell depending on if it's cloudly or not. I guess you could call the paper mill Isengard; smoke is always rising from it these days.

So I live everywhere and nowhere in ME at once.

Ainaserkewen · 03-24-2004, 09:45 PM

Dagnammit, She still floats! The thread, I mean.

I love hearing about all these "faraway and foreign" places. Makes me wish I had money to travel. Though before I've said my hometown looks like Ithilien...all this winter and wet makes it look more like the Wilderlands east of the misty mountains...reading the descriptions in the Hobbit, the darker trees and skies, plus the weather, are making me long for summer, and Ithilien. Oh well, I can wait.

Esgallhugwen · 04-02-2004, 04:21 PM

well, well, where i live doesn't resemble much of anything middle earthish, but once you get out of the town it look like Rohan, and there are mountains in the distance.

04-02-2004, 04:55 PM

Nothing around me resembles Middle Earth. Ya, I WISH! There used to be these awesome trails through the woods in my neighborhood..... then they developed it, and there are about 100 houses standing there instead.

My friend lives by this lake, and she owns about 5 acres of woods, and she has made trails... we named all these places by LOTR stuff. I love it! There is this creek we call Anduin... it is way neat-- it has a little waterfall we call the Falls of Rauros...and the surrounding banks we call Emyn Muil... lol. Down on my grandpa's farm, it is 120 acres of pasture and ponds/creeks... there is tons of stuff down there I name by LOTR ways...

But, near me, there are houses, and busy highways-- VERY Middle Earthy!! lol

Vilyon · 04-02-2004, 10:53 PM

I would have to say the Shire. I live near the sea, with a big hill close by, have a friendly neighbourhood and live relatively close to a river.

Valier · 12-19-2005, 01:17 PM

I live in Saskatchewan Canada ....So I guess pretty much like Rohan,but with no mountains close.

Elu Ancalime · 12-26-2005, 10:33 AM

I live in gainesville FL, but i would probably live in Tookland and try to travel to Minas Tirith.
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Eowyn Skywalker · 01-02-2006, 05:38 PM

I'm trying to figure out why I used to sign every single one of my posts...

(looks outside)

I still think I live in a Canadian reincarnated version of the Shire. Bar the frost at the moment, which makes it look like some northern version of the Shire still. (the Shire just became a shirt in my post. O_O) But Canada seems to have a lot of Tolkien-ish locations. I think he drew inspiration from us, or something...

This thread still lives...is dead...is alive? Something.

mark12_30 · 01-12-2008, 09:17 PM

I live in a little settlement in the woods. Most of our woods are oak but there are beech groves and some young pines. The houses nearby are all family dwellings. Beyond, to the west, there aren't many houses for quite a ways, and behind us to the east there are more woods still.

There are paths through the woods, crisscrossing, and a little confusing if you don''t know your way around or have a ranger to lead you. And in the woods are old stone ruins of houses and farms from a hundred years gone by, or more. Old stone walls ramble here and there. The rivers are brown from the oak tannin.

Chetwood, perhaps.

Meneltarmacil · 01-12-2008, 11:20 PM

The place where you live sounds kind of like the area between the Last Bridge and Rivendell, near the Stone-Trolls, complete with old ruins of settlements from when Rhudaur still controlled the area. And yes, it's easy to get lost there, even Aragorn did when he was trying to get Frodo to Rivendell.

Estelyn Telcontar · 01-13-2008, 08:47 AM

Though I usually consider the area where I live to be a modern version of the Shire, I walked in Fangorn near Isengard yesterday. I took a turn that led me into the woods, a spot where I hadn't been for awhile. I was saddened to see the bare patches where trees came down in last year's hurricane winds, flanked by stacks of felled trees alongside the road. The bare deciduous trees of winter added to the impression. No wizard - a natural catastrophe caused this destruction, yet Treebeard's words echoed in my mind: "Many of those trees... I had known from nut and acorn..."

03-07-2004, 09:53 PM	#1
The Perky Ent Maniacal Mage Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Setting sail for Umbar, with Firefoot at my side! Posts: 3,297	Well, since I live in New Orleans, i guess i'd say i live in Osgiliath. It would be because there are tons of tall buildings, it's kinda near the dead marshes, and a river runs through it™! __________________ 'But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.'

03-22-2004, 11:46 AM	#3
Thorongil Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: The Elvenpath Posts: 780	I live in Norway, in a kind of Mountainous region near the sea, with long inlets here and there. So it would probably around Lindon. A nice place, with a comforting distance to Mordor, and not a orc in sight. __________________ To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. ~Sun Tzu

03-22-2004, 01:27 PM	#4
Nimrothiel Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Imladris Posts: 288	Where I live it doesn't look like any specific place in ME; but the feel of the land changes with different kinds of weather. When it's cloudy it feels like Minas Tirith or the Dead Marshes; when it's sunny, Bree or the Shire ; when it's partly cloudy; Fangorn or Lorien. At night it feels the most like the Old Forest. However, there is one place in my town that looks and feels like Fangorn nearly all of the time; it alternates with Rivendell depending on if it's cloudly or not. I guess you could call the paper mill Isengard; smoke is always rising from it these days. So I live everywhere and nowhere in ME at once. __________________ "Walrus?! Will you quit makin' up imaginary animals?!!" ~ Sarge; Red vs. Blue

03-24-2004, 09:45 PM	#5
Ainaserkewen Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: A cosmic waiting room Posts: 651	Dagnammit, She still floats! The thread, I mean. I love hearing about all these "faraway and foreign" places. Makes me wish I had money to travel. Though before I've said my hometown looks like Ithilien...all this winter and wet makes it look more like the Wilderlands east of the misty mountains...reading the descriptions in the Hobbit, the darker trees and skies, plus the weather, are making me long for summer, and Ithilien. Oh well, I can wait. __________________ Solus... I'm eating chicken again. I ate chicken yesterday and the day before... will I be eating chicken again tomorrow? Why am I always eating chicken?

04-02-2004, 04:21 PM	#6
Esgallhugwen Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Where the Moon cries against the snow Posts: 526	well, well, where i live doesn't resemble much of anything middle earthish, but once you get out of the town it look like Rohan, and there are mountains in the distance. __________________ "...for the sin of the idolater is not that he worships stone, but that he worships one stone over others. -8:9:4 The Witness of Fane"

03-21-2004, 05:01 PM	#2
Ar-Wilson the Mighty Guest Posts: n/a	Hmmm well I live in New Zealand in a seaside city with rolling hills which really isnt much like anything in Middle Earth I dont think. But my holiday house further inland has snow tipped mountains, lakes and native forests, Its actually the location where Isengard was filmed so I guess my holiday house is Orthanc!

04-02-2004, 04:55 PM	#7
Ngole Yaviemiel Guest Posts: n/a	Nothing around me resembles Middle Earth. Ya, I WISH! There used to be these awesome trails through the woods in my neighborhood..... then they developed it, and there are about 100 houses standing there instead. My friend lives by this lake, and she owns about 5 acres of woods, and she has made trails... we named all these places by LOTR stuff. I love it! There is this creek we call Anduin... it is way neat-- it has a little waterfall we call the Falls of Rauros...and the surrounding banks we call Emyn Muil... lol. Down on my grandpa's farm, it is 120 acres of pasture and ponds/creeks... there is tons of stuff down there I name by LOTR ways... But, near me, there are houses, and busy highways-- VERY Middle Earthy!! lol

04-02-2004, 10:53 PM	#8
Vilyon Pile O'Bones Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Ummmm.....42 Posts: 11	I live... I would have to say the Shire. I live near the sea, with a big hill close by, have a friendly neighbourhood and live relatively close to a river. __________________ Elf archers are said to fire without warning,they say the first arrow is the warning. "I must apologise for Wimp Lo, he is an idiot, we have purposely trained him wrong, as a joke"

12-19-2005, 01:17 PM	#9
Valier Twisted Taleswapper Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: somewhere between sanity and insanity Posts: 1,706	I live in Saskatchewan Canada ....So I guess pretty much like Rohan,but with no mountains close. __________________ grand return?........

12-26-2005, 10:33 AM	#10
Elu Ancalime Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Anador Posts: 476	I live in gainesville FL, but i would probably live in Tookland and try to travel to Minas Tirith. ________ Gm Foods Last edited by Elu Ancalime; 03-03-2011 at 10:28 PM.

01-02-2006, 05:38 PM	#11
Eowyn Skywalker Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Somewhere far, far away. Eh. Posts: 402	I'm trying to figure out why I used to sign every single one of my posts... (looks outside) I still think I live in a Canadian reincarnated version of the Shire. Bar the frost at the moment, which makes it look like some northern version of the Shire still. (the Shire just became a shirt in my post. O_O) But Canada seems to have a lot of Tolkien-ish locations. I think he drew inspiration from us, or something... This thread still lives...is dead...is alive? Something. __________________ Sometimes worlds collide. This time, they got their own webpage. Join Middle-earth: Insanity forums today.

01-12-2008, 09:17 PM	#12
mark12_30 Stormdancer of Doom Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars Posts: 4,349	I live in a little settlement in the woods. Most of our woods are oak but there are beech groves and some young pines. The houses nearby are all family dwellings. Beyond, to the west, there aren't many houses for quite a ways, and behind us to the east there are more woods still. There are paths through the woods, crisscrossing, and a little confusing if you don''t know your way around or have a ranger to lead you. And in the woods are old stone ruins of houses and farms from a hundred years gone by, or more. Old stone walls ramble here and there. The rivers are brown from the oak tannin. Chetwood, perhaps. __________________ ...down to the water to see the elves dance and sing upon the midsummer's eve.

01-12-2008, 11:20 PM	#13
Meneltarmacil Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: The bottom of the ocean, discussing philosophy with a giant squid Posts: 2,254	The place where you live sounds kind of like the area between the Last Bridge and Rivendell, near the Stone-Trolls, complete with old ruins of settlements from when Rhudaur still controlled the area. And yes, it's easy to get lost there, even Aragorn did when he was trying to get Frodo to Rivendell. __________________ I ♣ baby seals.

01-13-2008, 08:47 AM	#14
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	Though I usually consider the area where I live to be a modern version of the Shire, I walked in Fangorn near Isengard yesterday. I took a turn that led me into the woods, a spot where I hadn't been for awhile. I was saddened to see the bare patches where trees came down in last year's hurricane winds, flanked by stacks of felled trees alongside the road. The bare deciduous trees of winter added to the impression. No wizard - a natural catastrophe caused this destruction, yet Treebeard's words echoed in my mind: "Many of those trees... I had known from nut and acorn..." __________________ 'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth...'

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