Countryside

[Aragorn Isildur]

Do you often find youself looking at countryside in a different way since LoTR? Like..."Oh that would be perfect for Hobbiton" etc

Aragorn:king:

[Nessa]

I do actually!

I was driving along (or rather being driven along :rolleyes: ) and I noticed a spot, sort of a field with lovely trees here and there, that would make a perfect hobbit home.....I was tempted to ask that the car be pulled over......:grin:

[Aragorn Isildur]

Sometimes i wonder if the locationer from LoTR should have been shot with some of the locations ive been fortunate to see, not that NZ was a bad choice. :)

Aragorn:king:

[Aragorn Isildur]

Made no sense there, oh well :stupid:

[A! Elbereth]

Thank you for mentioning this!!!!!!! Whenever I see a large patch of woods I look at it very closely and try to imagine that spot in the movie. I was walking in the woods with my friend today, and we came by a lake with flowers all around - oooh - I had a geat urge to run around in it as they once did. yeah....... I could imagine everything that happened in the book happening there.

[Nessa]

Oh! I know I just posted, but I have just recalled. I was taking a hike in the woods in Michigan during winter and it was the most lovely and peaceful expierience....I could completely envision myself in Middle Earth....:loveyou:

[Aragorn Isildur]

Ive just moved to a new house which backs onto some woods. As soon as my Narsil arrives i shall be reinacting the Aragorn Vs Lurtz with my friend whos quite orcish looking :) :knight:

Aragorn:king:

[Catz]

and where do you live again Aragorn? *note to self: avoid where Aragorn lives....*lol
i always do that anyway...always have....and since i live in NZ anyway, its so cool to see that PJ agreed with so many of the places that i thought would make great settings for the movie...but i do it with most of the books i read, not just LOTR
:catz:

[A! Elbereth]

Your lucky catz! You can tour Bag End if you desired! lucky! pfbbt

[Aragorn Isildur]

A little known place called Old Clipstone in England where Richard the Lionheart once stayed on the way to Nottingham Castle to reclaim it from his cousin John :)

Aragorn:king:

[Catz]

sounds nice Aragorn...just dont go lowering property values by beheading orcs on folks doorsteps:elfeek: ;)
and ive been thru Matamata regularly at least once a year since i was quite young....its only a little more than a hour from me....funny thing is its racehorse country, and it really is very English looking, with the pastures and the rolling hills....i often thought it would make a good Shire :cool:
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[Aragorn Isildur]

Its ok but im surrounded by commuting city yuppies.

[Pil]

It's amusing the sort of impressions have been given out of 'english' countryside in LOTR...hmm... :huh: lol

[Aragorn Isildur]

*nods in agreement*

[Algamesh]

You know, I've stated elsewhere here that my home region reminds me of the gentle rolling hills of Rohan. Now I know that most of Rohan is plains and grasslands but I've always imagined that the eastern end becomes hilly as one approaches Anduin.

Tolkien really never gave us any contrast between Mountain - Hill - Plain. Was there any mention of a true hill-land?

[Aragorn Isildur]

Possibly in The Sil but i'd have to check properly.

Aragorn:king:

[Bonos-Girl]

i live in the counttryside and there is this part where there is a very small country road and it always looks like something out of lord of the rings to me (except the cows...they kinda ruin it!!!)

[Catz]

you have to remember that the english countryside that is depicted in LOTR is pre WWI, and really no longer exists......even then it was an idealised version....more a distillation of what JRR loved about the small villages of england in that time period....
:catz:

[Aragorn Isildur]

Very True catz.

[Pil]

:thumbs: :catz:

COWS? lol I suppose... :huh:

I think that one of the mountains near where my gran lives in the Rhondda, Wales...looks like what i imagined the place to be where Aragorn finds the tree with gandalf in ROTK...very atmospherical and secretive...whenever i go there i feel i'm intruding on something that has been there long before me...

:elfqueen:

[HobbitFriend]

about a week after i finished LotR, i went camping and while at the campground we went hiking and it felt like i was walking through the misty mountains.... okay that sounds kinda weird, but hey! :grin: :huh:

[A! Elbereth]

I wish I could get away a go anywhere in the US, climb mountains, run through valleys.... It would be just like Middle Earth. But that will have to wait...:(

[Nessa]

I went camping this past weekend, and I was planning on a few nice hikes in the woods, a very middle earth type of place it was....but it rained all weekend so I ended up sleeping most of the time.... it would have been nice, though. :grin:

[Aragorn's Hope]

Glad to know I'm not alone out here in the world! Yes I do this alot too!