Middle-Earth Essence

[Encaitare]

Silver beech-bark.

This, and trees with silvery leaves. Whenever I see one, I tell myself it's a descendant of of Telperion or the White Tree of Gondor.

[The Only Real Estel]

Mushrooms.

[rutslegolas]

The taste of fresh bread somehow reminds me of Lembas ,and it somehow connects me to Middle-Earth.

[Sapphire_Flame]

Groves of quaking aspens in the autumn. With their white-grey bark and golden yellow leaves, they remind me of mellyrn!

Reading with a flashlight. The first time I finished reading RotK, my family was driving home from vacation; it was dark out, and I was sitting in the back seat, reading RotK with a flashlight wedged in the crook of my neck.

The song "My Immortal", by Evanescence. It's my Frodo song.

When the mountains near my house are shrouded in clouds and mist.

Being in a large group of people, and not knowing any of them. I feel so much sympathy for Merry, when he's all by himself with the Rohirrim.

Abedithon le,

~ Saphy ~

[Fordim Hedgethistle]

Autumn. It always makes me want to start walking east so I can reach Rivendell in time for Yule.

[Mithalwen]

I have a sweater that is a particularly elvish shade of green

I live on the fringe of an ancient forest. At the time I first read the books, I used to go riding there and even now when I only really drive its roads, I still think of Mirkwood as I pass...

When I go back to Oxford and Warwickshire, the countryside, I really think "Shire". When I hear passed down quotes of Sam, my Great-grandfather , I think of the Gaffer :

-Sam on being told a fab cook my poor great granny was
" she can cook and she can grumble"
{ Great Grannie's most remembered quote "I shouldn't mind a few years as a widow"}
- Sam's son emigrated to Australia in 1922. In 1948 he made his first visit home. Sam's comment after 3 weeks "Noisy young b*****, when's he going back?"
-Sam on his increasing deafness 'I can always hear in the pub if someone says "Would you like a drink, Sam?" '


You get the picture....


But mainly of course, everytime I look in the mirror, I just think "Galadriel" ... (I wish... balrog is closer to the mark

[Keeper of Dol Guldur]

Seriously, this is easy for me.

Eating bread.

I'm always eating some sort of bread product when I read LOTR. Just plain old sliced bread, out of the package. Bagels, wheat breads, cakes, brownies, any bread group things.

And sometimes cheese. Like, I'll take a brick of cheese and just slice off chunks and eat it as I read, with the bread, or without.

And then every time somebody says something about good bread and good cheese, I'm like "DARN RIGHT!"

Gets me right into the story. I have to read fast too, if I try to analyze as I'm reading, I just don't get sucked into it.

But other than that, my imagination seems to be good enough to keep me in Middle Earth for large periods of time.