Eorling Mead Hall Planning/Discussion Thread

[littlemanpoet]

It's mid-morning.

My thought was that it's perhaps a mile or so outside of Edoras, and happens to be an old, old Numenorean ruin right back against the mountain, hidden in a copse of trees (if a copse is big enough). To Numenoreans it would have been quite humble, and to an Eorlinga like Thornden rather impressive but very, very ruined and very, very ancient. To a Hobbit, BIG! To a boy, the stuff of dreams, no doubt!

If you've ever been to England, it's on a para with the old, old standing stones that are scattered throughout the island, except it's not standing stones, just 'that old', and the mouldering remains of an old way-station. Yeah. That's it. .... thus it would be no great surprise that a similar "way station" such as Edoras would be begun within a few miles of an ancient one. The lay of the land makes it suitable and all that. At least it's plausible, eh?

[Folwren]

Okay, sounds good.

I have never been to England, but I have seen many pictures and read books about old castles and ruins and whatnot. Besides that, America has it's old, ruined places.

I have two things in my head, I wonder if you could tell me which you think is more likely -

One is of seeing the old walls rising up some fifteen - twenty feet into the air, the empty windows gaping above the doorless doorway. Weeds and trees growing about and in the walls. The roof and much of the wall crumbled away, but still an obvious, standing structure, somewhat obscured by the greenery about it.

Or, there would be the even older ruins. Much more wild plantlife around, the wall only standing a foot or two above the ground and the place littered with fallen stones. In some places, some of the rooms still standing, but most of it level.

Or is it somewhere in between?

You said Numenorean, so it is very old?

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-- Folwren

[littlemanpoet]

Originally Posted by Folwren

I have two things in my head, I wonder if you could tell me which you think is more likely -

One is of seeing the old walls rising up some fifteen - twenty feet into the air, the empty windows gaping above the doorless doorway. Weeds and trees growing about and in the walls. The roof and much of the wall crumbled away, but still an obvious, standing structure, somewhat obscured by the greenery about it.

Or, there would be the even older ruins. Much more wild plantlife around, the wall only standing a foot or two above the ground and the place littered with fallen stones. In some places, some of the rooms still standing, but most of it level.

Or is it somewhere in between?

You said Numenorean, so it is very old?

It's more like the second. My thinking is that it's thousands of years old, but very well made. So the thousands of years would have worked at it, but since it was well made, what's left would show signs of good craftsmanship. So go with your second "even older ruins".