08-21-2004, 08:43 AM | #1 |
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Favorite Fortress
There are many fortresses in ME but what is your Favorite fortress ie-Minas Tirith, Dol GOldur, and so on. I have to go with Erebor. I loved the hobbit. Not more than LOTR but I loved the descriptions of it in its glory days also I love how close it is to Dale, my favorite city in Middle Earth.
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08-21-2004, 10:26 AM | #2 |
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Well, I love all things Finrod. So my favorite fortress would be the underground fortress of Nargothrond.
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08-21-2004, 10:33 AM | #3 |
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Nargothrond was my second choice. But I stil have to go with Erebor. IT was my first real fortress as I read Hobbit first so I have a special connection with it
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08-21-2004, 03:41 PM | #4 |
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Possibly Menegroth... With Gondolin a close second. Oh, and Angband.
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Not really a real battle-fortress like the first Minas Tirith persay, but still a place that could stand strong and be locked against an enemy, so I choose Menegroth. Possibly because I once saw a gorgeous drawing of it and the description:
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Is that quote from the SIlmarillion?
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Yes, from chapter 10: Of the Sindar.
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okay copool I am just about to get there. You know if Erebor wasnt my favorite I wouldnt go with Nargotthrond. I think I would have to go with Moira. It was a fortress in its day. A darn big one too. And they never were successfully atacked from the outside they just unleashed a Balrog right iun their midst. So I have to say Erebor- 1 and Moria- 2
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I quite like Helms Deep. I mean it was meant to be built by giants but I'd have to say that or Moria is my favourite.
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Hmm I just noticed that I have a liking to dwarves a lot. hmmm... though I usually dont like dwarven characters except in the Hobbit an LOTR. Thats odd. In every other fantasy book Ive read I hate the dwarves. I wonder why?
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08-30-2004, 09:48 PM | #11 |
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Valinor, I'd have to say. If the mountains count as walls, like their described in The Sil (at least that's how I took it).
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Khazad-Dûm. I'd love to have visited when Durin was King and when the Dwarves were young and strong.
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I have a problem with Helm's Deep. Why carefully place the main keep on a spur behind a bend in the stream (in the book that is, the geography was different in the film) and then build a nice, wide, gentle ramp right up to the front door? There wasn't even a drawbridge to make things a bit difficult for any attacker!
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09-01-2004, 11:09 AM | #14 |
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Yeah but it was built by giants.
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rivendell... good food, drink and company
in war, probably gondolin
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Tolkien illustrated Encyclopedia or at least it said something about giants helping the Dunedain build it.
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