Best place in Beleriand

[Elvengirl]

Gondolin has always caught my attention, because of its renowned history and its beauty. I'd definitely want to visit there, but as for a home, I would say I'd be happier in Doriath.

[Twista]

The small river of Tol Galen has always beem special to me.. hehe

[Turgon_Turambar]

i reckon Angband would be a great tourist attraction. They even get to see a Valar at no extra cost.

[Celeborn of Doriath]

I would like to live in Doriath. I think Menegroth is more beautiful than Nargothrond. But Gondolin is great, too.

[Artanis]

Hey Celeborn my dear, welcome! Would you perhaps like to introduce yourself in this thread? I would love to know who I'm married to.

[Maedhros]

For all of you who think that Gondolin is not the best place, beat this description:

"Lo, it stands fair to see and very clear, and its towers prick the heavens above the Hill of Watch in the midmost plain." Then Tuor and his companion were led over the plain that was of a marvellous level, broken but here and there by boulders round and smooth which lay amid a sward, or by pools in rocky beds. Many fair pathways lay across that plain, and they came after a day's light march to the foot of the Hill of Watch (which is in the tongue of the Noldor Amon Gwared). Then did they begin to ascend the winding stairways which climbed up to the city gate; nor might any one reach that city save on foot and espied from the walls. As the westward gate was golden in the last sunlight did they come to the long stair's head, and many eyes gazed upon them from the battlements and towers.
But Tuor looked upon the walls of stone, and the uplifted towers, upon the glistering pinnacles of the town, and he looked upon the stairs of stone and marble up to its high platform, and its great gate, bordered by slender balustrades and cooled by the leap of threadlike waterfalls seeking the plain from the fountains of Amon Gwared, and he fared as one in some dream of the Valar, for he deemed not such things were seen by men in the visions of their sleep, so great was his amaze at the glory of Gondolin.
Then did the throng return within the gates and the wanderers with them, and Tuor saw they were of iron and of great height and strength. Now the streets of Gondolin were paved with stone and wide, kerbed with marble, and fair houses and courts amid gardens of bright flowers mounds of mallorns, birches, and evergreen trees were set about the ways, and many towers of great slenderness and beauty builded of white marble and carved most marvellously rose to the heaven. Squares there were lit with fountains and the home of birds that sang amid the branches of their aged trees, but of all these the greatest was that place where stood the King’s house , and the tower thereof on a pillared arcade was the loftiest in the city, and above it flew the banner of Fingolfin and the fountains that played before the doors shot twenty fathoms and seven in the air and fell in a singing rain of crystal: therein did the sun glitter splendidly by day, and the moon most magically shimmered by night. The birds that dwelt there were of the whiteness of snow and their voices sweeter than a lullaby of music.
On either side of the doors of the palace were the gilded images of two trees, one of gold and the other of silver, and they were likenesse the glorious Trees of Valinor that lit those places before Morgoth and Ungoliant withered them: and those trees the Gondolindrim named Glingal and Belthil.

[Minielin]

The pillars of Menegroth were hewn in the likeness of the beeches of Orome, stock, bough, and leaf, and they were lit with lanterns of gold. The nightingales sang there as in the gardens of Lorien; and there were fountains of silver, and basins of marble, and floors of many-colored stones. Carven figures of beasts and birds there ran upon the walls, or climbed upon the pillars, or peered among the branches entwined with many flowers. And as the years passed Melian and her maidens filled the halls with woven hangings wherein could be read the deeds of the Valar, and many things that had befallen in Arda since its beginning, and shadows of things that were yet to be. That was the fairest dwelling of any king that has ever been east of the Sea.

Not as long, but the last sentence says it all. Doriath also has the appeal of freedom and has the woods that you could wander in.

[Last Child of Ungoliant]

the best place in all beleriand was gondolin, ah the hidden city in days of splendour, how i recall the banners of the seven houses flying in the breeze...

[Telcontar_Dunedain]

I agree. It was the closest thing on ME to Tirion in Valinor. No wonder Turgon wanted to keeps it's location secret.

[Pytt]

Yes, Gondolin is great. The closest to Tirion as TD says.
I also thing Nargotrhond is really cool. One of those places. I also think Menegroth is great.

[Uinor]

Ossiriand, Land of Music...

Land of the Seven Rivers....