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

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.

Lhundulinwen · 04-03-2004, 07:52 PM

Not like this hasn't been said, but probably the Shire. Rolling hills, woods, etc. Small streams, I love it but would rather be in Gondor sometimes.

Ainaserkewen · 04-05-2004, 12:19 PM

I've decided that since the movies came out that I literally live in Middle-Earth. NO, I don't live in New Zealand. I live in British Columbia Canada, which was rumored to have been thought of in the location for the movies. BC looks so much like New Zealand (or the other way around) it's uncanny. The mountains here are smaller, BUT their still mountains. Everytime I take a BC Ferry, and I look over the mainland mountains, covered in Mists, guess what I think of.

03-22-2004, 01:27 PM	#1
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	#2
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	#3
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"

04-02-2004, 10:53 PM	#5
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"

04-03-2004, 07:52 PM	#6
Lhundulinwen Wight Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Wishin' and hopin' in the Shire Posts: 139	Not like this hasn't been said, but probably the Shire. Rolling hills, woods, etc. Small streams, I love it but would rather be in Gondor sometimes. __________________ ~Just call on me, and I'm there. I'll always be your Sam~

04-02-2004, 04:55 PM	#4
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

04-05-2004, 12:19 PM	#7
Ainaserkewen Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: A cosmic waiting room Posts: 651	I know! I've decided that since the movies came out that I literally live in Middle-Earth. NO, I don't live in New Zealand. I live in British Columbia Canada, which was rumored to have been thought of in the location for the movies. BC looks so much like New Zealand (or the other way around) it's uncanny. The mountains here are smaller, BUT their still mountains. Everytime I take a BC Ferry, and I look over the mainland mountains, covered in Mists, guess what I think of. __________________ 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?