places we are so insane that we think are warps into middle-earth - Page 2

barrelrider110 · 03-06-2002, 10:24 AM

Irelend, yep, definitely. I was there in '85. There's a place in the Wicklow mountains, called St. Steven's Kitchen, that is an ideal Rivendell. (I can't think of the proper name) In the west of Ireland there's an area called the Burren that reminded me of the Emyn Muil, and many, many open fields that reminded me of the fields of Rohan. They do raise some fine horses there.

The Great Smokeys in Tenessee look just like the Misty Mountains.

In may back-yard there's a very old male mulberry tree that has huge groping roots and a nasty, old gnarled trunk that you would swear has a face. I call him Old Man Mulberry after you-know-who. Yes, he is male. Mulberrys have male and female plants. *Rambling a bit* His wife lives at the other end of the yard, and she produces some nice, sweet fruit every June. She's so tall, I can't harvest enough for wine, and the birds get to them so quickly. *Getting hungry*

Great thread.

rainbow · 03-06-2002, 11:06 AM

personally i think our local woods look a bit like the woods outside hobbiton! they r rather freaky with lots of dead trees and leaves!!!!

Rána Eressëa · 03-06-2002, 04:05 PM

The forest around my house is really creepy and stuffy like Mirkwood. And I think I saw a black squirrel once....

Khadrane · 03-06-2002, 09:26 PM

My school seems supiciously like Mordor...

Tanoliel · 03-06-2002, 09:59 PM

Emyn Muil...I'm having a blank on that one. There's so many names running around in my head...Lo siento, pero no hay nada que puedo hacer! (heehee...that's my favorite spanish phrase.)

-tano

Arathorn · 03-06-2002, 10:06 PM

Emyn Muil is the sharp rocky region Sam and Frodo had to go through right after crossing the Anduin near the falls when the split up with the rest of the fellowship.

Tanoliel · 03-06-2002, 10:17 PM

OHHH, right. I remember now. Thanks, Arathorn! Yes, I definetly agree....the Burren is very Emyn Muil-ish.
-tano

Eruviel Greenleaf · 03-07-2002, 02:36 AM

About forests in the Northwestern US...like in the Olympics, and up in Canada...VERY Fangornish... I rememver finding a big waterfall-sorta thing with TONS of moss and stuff, Tano, do you remember? at Harrison? And the rest of the surrounding area was very ME-ish. And since I live somewhere rather surrounded by mountains, I keep pointing at random mountains and calling them Caradras...I'm sure If I did that anywhere near my dad, he would tell me its real name.
But another place, I was backpacking out on the Olympic coast, and we went to get water from a stream nearby, when it was pretty early in the morning, so it was kinda dark, and my friend Alex said it looked like the pool in front of the Moria Gate. We also thought it could be the dwelling of the Forest Spirit from Princess Mononoke (if you haven't seen that movie, get it! Now!)

The White Rider · 03-07-2002, 01:00 PM

Part of Jerusalem is called Moria ... the freaky thing is that it looks like it!

Cirdan · 03-07-2002, 01:01 PM

I'm sure that the New York subway is Moria. Just substitute homeless for the fallen dwarves and gang members for orcs. Maybe the trains are Balrogs or cave trolls.

bropous · 03-07-2002, 01:20 PM

Well, I'm sure at least East Jerusalem is like Moria.....overcrowded by Orcs, but the Balrog is in Ramallah....

Up here in Colorado we have a lot of places which make me think of Middle-Earth:

Ered Nimrais (White Mountains): Sangre de Cristo mountain range.

Hithaeglir (Misty Mountains): San Juan mountain range

Mount Mindolluin: Pikes Peak

Lothlorien: Crowe Gulch (white-trunked aspens, their leaves whispering like a chorus of elven voices, peaceful isolation)

Emyn Muil: Parts of Rocky Mountain National Park near St Mary Glacier; the Wet Mountains and ride from Westcliffe back through Canyon City)

Anduin from Lothlorien to Emyn Muil: Las Animas River valley behind the Needle Mountains (San Juan Mts)

Mordor: Anything east of Powers Drive.....

Fangorn Forest: Mad Woman Gulch (San Juan Mts)

Ithilien: Colorado River valley

Caradhras and Silvertine: Mount Massive and Mount Elbert

Also:
Mirkwood - Big Thicket, East Texas
Dead Marshes: Atchafalaya River Basin, southern Louisiana
Mordor (again): Anything in Texas west of Fredericksburg
Taur-na-Fuin: Louisiana pine forests

Wish my scanner was working so I could show some pics....a few are at my website http://www.geocities.com/bropous64/

Bill Ferny · 03-07-2002, 03:37 PM

I saw an Ent once. Actually, several. My family was up in the White mountains and There were these ents. They had actually all gone kind of tree-ish though. Anyway, the name of one of them was Methuselah. He was supposed to be the oldest living thing on the planet, which makes me think he's an Ent.

Cirdan · 03-07-2002, 03:53 PM

I heard a whole moot of them one time. The frequency they speak to one another in must be down around 5- 8 Hz. I may have swallowed too much entmead

Kwijibo · 03-09-2002, 01:24 PM

I LIVE AMONG THE BARROW-DOWNS! TOM BOMBADIL, WHERE ARE YOU!?!?

We used to have an Isengard down the road as well but then the Ents (a.k.a demolishers) knocked it down!

Across the valley (I live in the Valley of Rivendell! *does a weird little happy dance*) there's a town with a street called ...

Moria Road!!!

Moria probably means something in Welsh, but I dunno and I don't wanna know!

Kwijibo · 03-09-2002, 01:28 PM

There are some trees across the road from that I will swear are Ents!!

They move when the wind doesn't blow, they are over 14 feet high, and in the winter, their faces appear in a strange, cold, white substance that could be snow, but we all know the truth!

***Earniel*** · 03-09-2002, 03:57 PM

Wouldn't it be nice if you could post pictures of these places?

Tanoliel · 03-10-2002, 11:17 PM

well, we could post pics....but you run into the size problem. anyone with websites, PLEASE post pics, i'd really love to see em...I'll try to. and if you don't have one...well, I dunno...but i'd like to see em somehow!

-tano

Cirdan · 03-10-2002, 11:30 PM

I've got a sight doing nothing. I can set them up. Just email me with the attached pic + text you want. I'll post the link periodically once it's ready.

Tanoliel · 03-10-2002, 11:31 PM

Cirdan, you are a god!

One back for you, then....I'm working on the ykylttm stuff...
-tano

Ararax · 03-11-2002, 12:49 AM

where do you think the planes that dissappear in the bermuda triangel go?

03-06-2002, 10:24 AM	#21
barrelrider110 Peer of the realm of Sanguine Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Hill, Marlton, NJ Posts: 798	Irelend, yep, definitely. I was there in '85. There's a place in the Wicklow mountains, called St. Steven's Kitchen, that is an ideal Rivendell. (I can't think of the proper name) In the west of Ireland there's an area called the Burren that reminded me of the Emyn Muil, and many, many open fields that reminded me of the fields of Rohan. They do raise some fine horses there. The Great Smokeys in Tenessee look just like the Misty Mountains. In may back-yard there's a very old male mulberry tree that has huge groping roots and a nasty, old gnarled trunk that you would swear has a face. I call him Old Man Mulberry after you-know-who. Yes, he is male. Mulberrys have male and female plants. Rambling a bit His wife lives at the other end of the yard, and she produces some nice, sweet fruit every June. She's so tall, I can't harvest enough for wine, and the birds get to them so quickly. Getting hungry Great thread. __________________ “"I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider," Fear Complacency! ___________________ Something under the bed is drooling Last edited by barrelrider110 : 03-06-2002 at 10:28 AM.

03-06-2002, 11:06 AM	#22
rainbow Enting Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: in my head Posts: 61	personally i think our local woods look a bit like the woods outside hobbiton! they r rather freaky with lots of dead trees and leaves!!!! __________________ smile & be happy (frodo lives) BANANERISM RULES!!!!! the spotty dog chases its tail till all its spots fall off!

03-06-2002, 09:26 PM	#24
Khadrane Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Middle Earth (I wish) Posts: 670	My school seems supiciously like Mordor... __________________ Few know whither their road will take them till they come to its end. -Legolas FRODO LIVES! ABORTION IS HOMICIDE

03-06-2002, 09:59 PM	#25
Tanoliel Eccentric Chocolate Crow Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: The Emerald City--Seattle, WA Posts: 1,861	Emyn Muil...I'm having a blank on that one. There's so many names running around in my head...Lo siento, pero no hay nada que puedo hacer! (heehee...that's my favorite spanish phrase.) -tano __________________ Wisdom for Short Attention Spans...Ozy and Millie. It rocks. Food Of The Gods: 3,7-dihydro-3,7-dimethyl-1H-purine-2,6-dione Feed Me.... Another Online Dwelling Place... "All right, I confess. It is my intention to comandeer a ship, pick up a crew in Tortuga, to rape, pillage, plunder and otherwise pilfer my weasely black guts out." -Captain Jack Sparrow "The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify." -Amelia Peabody Emerson "Most people obey the orders of someone who is pointing a gun at their head." -A.P. Emerson

03-06-2002, 10:06 PM	#26
Arathorn Bard of Mangled Songs Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: West of Middle Earth...oh alright...Manila Posts: 2,679	Emyn Muil is the sharp rocky region Sam and Frodo had to go through right after crossing the Anduin near the falls when the split up with the rest of the fellowship. __________________ Power attracts the corruptible. Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible. -Missionaria Protectiva, Frank Herbert *Accio, Ash Nazg!* Elennuru s?la lúmenn' omentielvo* (The Death Star shines on the hour of our meeting) - Darth Arathorn Put aside the ranger... Start looking for Mumakil action figures... Last edited by Arathorn : 03-06-2002 at 10:07 PM.

03-06-2002, 04:05 PM	#23
Rána Eressëa The Rogue Elf Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,722	The forest around my house is really creepy and stuffy like Mirkwood. And I think I saw a black squirrel once....

03-06-2002, 10:17 PM	#27
Tanoliel Eccentric Chocolate Crow Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: The Emerald City--Seattle, WA Posts: 1,861	OHHH, right. I remember now. Thanks, Arathorn! Yes, I definetly agree....the Burren is very Emyn Muil-ish. -tano __________________ Wisdom for Short Attention Spans...Ozy and Millie. It rocks. Food Of The Gods: 3,7-dihydro-3,7-dimethyl-1H-purine-2,6-dione Feed Me.... Another Online Dwelling Place... "All right, I confess. It is my intention to comandeer a ship, pick up a crew in Tortuga, to rape, pillage, plunder and otherwise pilfer my weasely black guts out." -Captain Jack Sparrow "The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify." -Amelia Peabody Emerson "Most people obey the orders of someone who is pointing a gun at their head." -A.P. Emerson

03-07-2002, 02:36 AM	#28
Eruviel Greenleaf Alcoholic Villain-Fancying Elf Pirate Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Lyonesse Posts: 4,547	About forests in the Northwestern US...like in the Olympics, and up in Canada...VERY Fangornish... I rememver finding a big waterfall-sorta thing with TONS of moss and stuff, Tano, do you remember? at Harrison? And the rest of the surrounding area was very ME-ish. And since I live somewhere rather surrounded by mountains, I keep pointing at random mountains and calling them Caradras...I'm sure If I did that anywhere near my dad, he would tell me its real name. But another place, I was backpacking out on the Olympic coast, and we went to get water from a stream nearby, when it was pretty early in the morning, so it was kinda dark, and my friend Alex said it looked like the pool in front of the Moria Gate. We also thought it could be the dwelling of the Forest Spirit from Princess Mononoke (if you haven't seen that movie, get it! Now!) __________________ Eruviel Greenleaf in a past life. "Whoever has come to understand the world has found only a corpse, and whoever has found a corpse is superior to the world." -The Gospel of Thomas SQUAWK!

03-07-2002, 01:00 PM	#29
The White Rider Hobbit Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Somewhere in the name of Arda Posts: 23	Part of Jerusalem is called Moria ... the freaky thing is that it looks like it! __________________ Guiding everyone I can see... Straight to doom except for me.

03-07-2002, 01:01 PM	#30
Cirdan Elf Lord of the Grey Havens Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: somewhere else Posts: 2,381	I'm sure that the New York subway is Moria. Just substitute homeless for the fallen dwarves and gang members for orcs. Maybe the trains are Balrogs or cave trolls. __________________ There exists a limit to the force even ther most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of government. Misuse of power is the fatal sin. The law cannot be a tool of vengance, never a hostage, nor a fortification against the martyrs it has created. You cannot threaten any individual and escape the consequences. -Muad'dib on Law The Stilgar Commentary

03-07-2002, 01:20 PM	#31
bropous EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMED DCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Littleton, CO Posts: 1,176	Well, I'm sure at least East Jerusalem is like Moria.....overcrowded by Orcs, but the Balrog is in Ramallah.... Up here in Colorado we have a lot of places which make me think of Middle-Earth: Ered Nimrais (White Mountains): Sangre de Cristo mountain range. Hithaeglir (Misty Mountains): San Juan mountain range Mount Mindolluin: Pikes Peak Lothlorien: Crowe Gulch (white-trunked aspens, their leaves whispering like a chorus of elven voices, peaceful isolation) Emyn Muil: Parts of Rocky Mountain National Park near St Mary Glacier; the Wet Mountains and ride from Westcliffe back through Canyon City) Anduin from Lothlorien to Emyn Muil: Las Animas River valley behind the Needle Mountains (San Juan Mts) Mordor: Anything east of Powers Drive..... Fangorn Forest: Mad Woman Gulch (San Juan Mts) Ithilien: Colorado River valley Caradhras and Silvertine: Mount Massive and Mount Elbert Also: Mirkwood - Big Thicket, East Texas Dead Marshes: Atchafalaya River Basin, southern Louisiana Mordor (again): Anything in Texas west of Fredericksburg Taur-na-Fuin: Louisiana pine forests Wish my scanner was working so I could show some pics....a few are at my website http://www.geocities.com/bropous64/ __________________ "...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160. Last edited by bropous : 03-07-2002 at 01:23 PM.

03-07-2002, 03:37 PM	#32
Bill Ferny Sapling Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 12	I saw an Ent once. Actually, several. My family was up in the White mountains and There were these ents. They had actually all gone kind of tree-ish though. Anyway, the name of one of them was Methuselah. He was supposed to be the oldest living thing on the planet, which makes me think he's an Ent.

03-07-2002, 03:53 PM	#33
Cirdan Elf Lord of the Grey Havens Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: somewhere else Posts: 2,381	I heard a whole moot of them one time. The frequency they speak to one another in must be down around 5- 8 Hz. I may have swallowed too much entmead __________________ There exists a limit to the force even ther most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of government. Misuse of power is the fatal sin. The law cannot be a tool of vengance, never a hostage, nor a fortification against the martyrs it has created. You cannot threaten any individual and escape the consequences. -Muad'dib on Law The Stilgar Commentary

03-09-2002, 01:24 PM	#34
Kwijibo Elven Warrior Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Lothlorien (actually Wales, but let's not talk about that) Posts: 117	I LIVE AMONG THE BARROW-DOWNS! TOM BOMBADIL, WHERE ARE YOU!?!? We used to have an Isengard down the road as well but then the Ents (a.k.a demolishers) knocked it down! Across the valley (I live in the Valley of Rivendell! does a weird little happy dance) there's a town with a street called ... Moria Road!!! Moria probably means something in Welsh, but I dunno and I don't wanna know! __________________ 'So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All you can decide is what to do with the time that is given to you,' - Gandalf the Grey 'I left my body to science, but I'm afraid they've turned it down' - In memory of Graham Chapman 'Rubin sits like Buddah in a 10 foot cell, An innocent man in a living hell,' - From 'Hurricane' by Bob Dylan, the only innocent Hurricane protest song, written stressing the innocence of Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, a black, middle-weight boxer imprisoned for 19 for a triple murder which he did not commit.

03-09-2002, 01:28 PM	#35
Kwijibo Elven Warrior Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Lothlorien (actually Wales, but let's not talk about that) Posts: 117	There are some trees across the road from that I will swear are Ents!! They move when the wind doesn't blow, they are over 14 feet high, and in the winter, their faces appear in a strange, cold, white substance that could be snow, but we all know the truth! __________________ 'So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All you can decide is what to do with the time that is given to you,' - Gandalf the Grey 'I left my body to science, but I'm afraid they've turned it down' - In memory of Graham Chapman 'Rubin sits like Buddah in a 10 foot cell, An innocent man in a living hell,' - From 'Hurricane' by Bob Dylan, the only innocent Hurricane protest song, written stressing the innocence of Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, a black, middle-weight boxer imprisoned for 19 for a triple murder which he did not commit.

03-09-2002, 03:57 PM	#36
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	Wouldn't it be nice if you could post pictures of these places?

03-10-2002, 11:17 PM	#37
Tanoliel Eccentric Chocolate Crow Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: The Emerald City--Seattle, WA Posts: 1,861	well, we could post pics....but you run into the size problem. anyone with websites, PLEASE post pics, i'd really love to see em...I'll try to. and if you don't have one...well, I dunno...but i'd like to see em somehow! -tano __________________ Wisdom for Short Attention Spans...Ozy and Millie. It rocks. Food Of The Gods: 3,7-dihydro-3,7-dimethyl-1H-purine-2,6-dione Feed Me.... Another Online Dwelling Place... "All right, I confess. It is my intention to comandeer a ship, pick up a crew in Tortuga, to rape, pillage, plunder and otherwise pilfer my weasely black guts out." -Captain Jack Sparrow "The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify." -Amelia Peabody Emerson "Most people obey the orders of someone who is pointing a gun at their head." -A.P. Emerson

03-10-2002, 11:30 PM	#38
Cirdan Elf Lord of the Grey Havens Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: somewhere else Posts: 2,381	I've got a sight doing nothing. I can set them up. Just email me with the attached pic + text you want. I'll post the link periodically once it's ready. __________________ There exists a limit to the force even ther most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of government. Misuse of power is the fatal sin. The law cannot be a tool of vengance, never a hostage, nor a fortification against the martyrs it has created. You cannot threaten any individual and escape the consequences. -Muad'dib on Law The Stilgar Commentary

03-10-2002, 11:31 PM	#39
Tanoliel Eccentric Chocolate Crow Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: The Emerald City--Seattle, WA Posts: 1,861	Cirdan, you are a god! One back for you, then....I'm working on the ykylttm stuff... -tano __________________ Wisdom for Short Attention Spans...Ozy and Millie. It rocks. Food Of The Gods: 3,7-dihydro-3,7-dimethyl-1H-purine-2,6-dione Feed Me.... Another Online Dwelling Place... "All right, I confess. It is my intention to comandeer a ship, pick up a crew in Tortuga, to rape, pillage, plunder and otherwise pilfer my weasely black guts out." -Captain Jack Sparrow "The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify." -Amelia Peabody Emerson "Most people obey the orders of someone who is pointing a gun at their head." -A.P. Emerson

03-11-2002, 12:49 AM	#40
Ararax Elven Warrior Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: NEW JERSEY! Posts: 375	where do you think the planes that dissappear in the bermuda triangel go? __________________ Woah Deep

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