If you could have been born in Middle Earth...

[Ughósh the Abominable]

HEY I'd just like to give a shout out for the Children of Aule! Dwarf all the way baby!!!

Geez, too many freakin' elves. Sheesh. Bunch of woodland ninnies...

Anyway I'd probably live in the Iron Hills, wielding a hammer in peacetime and an axe in war. Elves are okay, but not friends. Men are useful trading partners. Hobbits are the entertainment. But fellow dwarves are my brothers, and I will gladly die beside them in a bitter press.

[Isowen]

I would love to be born in Middle-Earth. I would have to be and elf and live in LothLorien, as I would like to meet Galadriel and Celeborn. It would be great to be there when the fellowship passed through there too! I wouldn't mind living in Minas Tirith if i were a man (female in my case) as it has a great view! But I would take the occasional visit to Edoras to visit Eomer, Eowyn and Brego! Mirkwood would be ok, in hope that the necromancer remains banned from those parts whilst I was living there!

[Galadriel55]

I'd be one of the Dunedain rangers. And I'll live somewhere around Rivendell for the most part, but I'll travel a lot.

[Galadriel]

Originally Posted by Galadriel55

I'd be one of the Dunedain rangers. And I'll live somewhere around Rivendell for the most part, but I'll travel a lot.

Haha! Smelly business I'm pretty sure I've already posted on this thread, but now I just want to live as noblewoman in Valinor. Don't ask me why.

[Dúgorin]

I'd live in Ithilien or Dol Amroth, I'd be a Dúnadan with Elf ancestry and be friends with Faramir, Aragorn, Imrahil & the Rangers

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

I would be an Elf in Mirkwood, and I would be a castle guard. I would be friends with Thranduil and Legolas, as well as friends with just about everybody in the king's halls who wasn't a complete a--.

[Mithalwen]

You would be Itaril and I claim my five pounds?

[Selmo]

What would I be in Middle-Earth?

Let me think;
I'm rather short and a little tubby, I had brown curly hair (it's gray now), I like to wear bright colours, I enjoy good simple food, five meals a day (when I can get them), I love dark, strong ale and the (very) occasional pipe of tobacco.

I wonder what I could be.

Is there a vacancy for an Ale Quality Inspector in The Shire?

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[Glorthelion]

Me, I would be a great commander of Gondor's armies. Something along the lines of Boromir.

[Meneltarmacil]

Originally Posted by Selmo

What would I be in Middle-Earth?

Let me think;
I'm rather short and a little tubby, I had brown curly hair (it's gray now), I like to wear bright colours, I enjoy good simple food, five meals a day (when I can get them), I love dark, strong ale and the (very) occasional pipe of tobacco.

I wonder what I could be.

Is there a vacancy for an Ale Quality Inspector in The Shire?

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There was, but I believe a certain Peregrine Took already filled it.

[Alcidas]

I would be an elf and live in Rivendell (because those elf girls are HOT...)

[Mumriken]

^stupid.........

I'd be an pipeweed smoking elf. I'd live in a lighthouse by the western sea. At the top of my lighthouse I'd have a small gallery where I'd draw sleep and live my ever lasting life out. Of course from time to time I'd travel east to visit the hobbits and Tom Bombadil...and maybe even the ents!!!!!

[Bêthberry]

I'll stick my head out and say I'd rather not be born in Middle-earth.

Much as I enjoy the books, I'm rather firmly wedded to modern medicine, control over reproduction, voting rights and equality, universal education, despite all the problems,difficulties, and wretched issues we have today. My grandmother bore ten children and lived Rosie Cotton's life. It's no idyl.

I suppose that makes me an Entwife.

[Inziladun]

I think I'd rather have enjoyed being one of the Rohirrim.
I like their land, and they seem to have an uncomplicated sort of life. Somehow, they seem almost hobbit-like compared to other Men we see, like the Gondorians.
Nice weather, horses, blonde maidens...what's not to like?

[skip spence]

Originally Posted by Bêthberry

I'll stick my head out and say I'd rather not be born in Middle-earth.

Much as I enjoy the books, I'm rather firmly wedded to modern medicine, control over reproduction, voting rights and equality, universal education, despite all the problems,difficulties, and wretched issues we have today. My grandmother bore ten children and lived Rosie Cotton's life. It's no idyl.

You are right of course, Bb. Went to a friend's house the other day and we decided to make mojitos since we had rum, lime and mint-leaves. And the wonders of modern society! The crushed ice and soda water you could get straight from the fridge-door with just a push of a button!

For those yearning for the Elvish lifestyle, I think even Tolkien are quite clear that Men are not really made for that kind of contentment, serenity and harmony with nature. We are restless and the grass is always greener on the other side. Sitting on a lawn in Lorien, reciting poetry and meditating on the beauty of the Mallorn trees would be very nice for a while but sooner or later there would be an itch.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by skip spence

For those yearning for the Elvish lifestyle, I think even Tolkien are quite clear that Men are not really made for that kind of contentment, serenity and harmony with nature. We are restless and the grass is always greener on the other side. Sitting on a lawn in Lorien, reciting poetry and meditating on the beauty of the Mallorn trees would be very nice for a while but sooner or later there would be an itch.

That's indeed what is rather explicite in there. So possibly, yes - I think that's the point, however: Middle-Earth is "made" for us for rest, renewal, the peace so that one can later return to the buzz of elsewhere. In the in-world perspective, even the spirits of Men leave and nobody knows where, not even the Elves do. The Men are just "guests". So in fact, you are probably right in your idea that if you had to live in Middle-Earth, some place akin to our world (like the Gondorian Umbar, Minas Tirith or the places teeming with life) might be more up to human taste.

But still - I think even places more "lost" can be nice, like Lórien, if you could find nice enough company there (which is questionable, you would probably need more humans and not only Elves around, their thinking might prove to be too alien in the end after all). But the point of the strength of Men is creating new things, enrichening the world, even though they live in it only shortly - that is what has been amazing the Elves since the dawn of times. So, theoretically, even in a place like Rivendell, I think, a human could find himself feeling comfortable, under the condition that the local population would not hold it against him that he is creating new things, and therefore, of course, changing things - as we know, change is the thing the Elves do not seem to be very happy with. That is, I think, a bit of the problem with the Undying Lands, too, the reason why mortals can't really live there - a human cannot sit on the grass for a thousand years and be just happy. Eventually, you will feel like you want to do something. Though, if I think about it, the Elves certainly did not sit there idly all the time either - thinking of Fëanor as the most remarkable example... though, truth be told, the Noldor were in a way also the most "human-like" (also in the bad way), and they did not stay in the end... they had to go through all the suffering in Middle-Earth before they were able to appreciate the return and the peace and the rest again.

Interesting thought, anyway.

[Aerandir]

I'd probably be a Dunlander from Dunland, as I have a strange fascination with them, as so little is told, save for the war(s) with Rohan. Living in Enedwaith and talking with those idiot Elves from Eregion, before the, you know, whole ring forging thing!

[Lollipop010900]

Well, I'd be an elf, but I'd live in Rohan and I'd be married to Eomer. I know, weird combo but...

[Unforgiven]

I'd be a green Thark with tusks and four arms and call myself Jeddak!

Oh, Wait wrong forum -

I'd be a green Orc with tusks and four arms and call myself Jedlak!

[Pellanarién Aldarion]

I am a half human half elven ranger of the north. A young female desguised as a male human, hidding my trueself in plain sight from my fellow rangers. As a man I can go where I want and do what I want, I can from my pasts past and from myeslf and what I should or should not be. It would my choosings to make in this life.

I could travel between Imladris and the forests of Mirkwood. Sometimes alone along the borders of Lorien and Rohan. Maybe even as far as to the people of Harad. I would Always return to Rivendell. Lord Elrond has always offered us sanctuary to those of us who need it. Even if not asked.

I have not many friends here but in a rangers line of work and a female no less, who really does.

I would have started my time some where around in the year of 2800 of the Third age. A few decades before Bilbos time when Arda was still at a small amount of peace.

[blantyr]

I'd be an elven singer from the Grey Havens, winter in the settlements by the sea, and wander the woods in the warmer months. I wouldn't be as good an archer or swordsman as most in the wandering companies, but the Shadow can be fought with song as well as blades, and songs should be sung also for song's sake.

[Ardent]

Originally Posted by blantyr

I'd be an elven singer from the Grey Havens, winter in the settlements by the sea, and wander the woods in the warmer months. I wouldn't be as good an archer or swordsman as most in the wandering companies, but the Shadow can be fought with song as well as blades, and songs should be sung also for song's sake.

My dad taught me to use the long bow but I never made much of it. Not being one for wandering far from home I think I'd be a Shire dweller (they too have bows, though they only appear in the Scouring of the Shire), but one who spends time with those who journey through or live on the borders of our land.

As to singing for the song's sake, I don't know if that is quite possible or, at any rate, not how I'd put it. Shire folk also love music (I play whistle and uilleann pipes), gathering to sing and make merry. Our music is neither as 'high' as the Elves nor dour as the Dwarves, or sinister as the Goblins, but akin to all because music is more than being entertained; we make our own music, our own magic, to tell ourselves who we are.

We make music because thus we rejoin the Great Song. How can I put it? Songs should be sung for the Song's sake (capital S), not for the sake of an individual song.

"It finds an echo in my soul—
How can I keep from singing?"
R.W.Lowry

[Guinevere]

Originally Posted by Ardent

"It finds an echo in my soul—
How can I keep from singing?"
R.W.Lowry

Isn't that a song by Enya?

I guess I would prefer to live in the Shire, too, or perhaps in Gondor, working in the houses of healing, like Ioreth.

[Ardent]

Originally Posted by Guinevere

Isn't that a song by Enya?

I guess I would prefer to live in the Shire, too, or perhaps in Gondor, working in the houses of healing, like Ioreth.

I first heard it in a black-and-white movie, either Laurel and Hardy or Marx Bro's, but Enya did cover it.

[Andsigil]

I would be a dwarf, preferably one who is skilled at both arms and the forge.