Photos (and Drawings?) of Tolkienian Landscapes

[Lúthien]

Ah - was looking for this photo.

It's from a viewpoint by Loch Ness, looking west. From there feels like you're looking out to the Misty Mountains - or Mordor.

Wow, so lovely. I’ve never been near Loch Ness yet, but the feel of the scene is quite similar to the Lake Disctrict. And there are plenty of Middle-Earth-like places there, too.

 

[Mirannan]

Taken at Ingleton Falls, Lancashire, UK in the middle of winter. My working title is Under Mirkwood:

 

[Stephen Palmer]

terrific! very atmospheric.

 

[The Judge]

I thought this might be of interest, not merely for the fun of the re-imaged Tolkienesque maps, but the photo of Gordale Scar which appears to be a Tolkienian landscape itself National park gets Tolkien-style map

 

[Pyan]

A nice idea - but it's a shame that the author - and he's not alone: 90% of people that use the tengwar do this - didn't read the actual notes that go with it. The tehtar, the diacritic marks above the word are not just evocative ornaments: they are the vowels, the doubled consonants and occasionally the nasal sound of the language. Swaledale would be spelled Swldl, with three-dot circumflexes over the 'w' and the 'd'.

And yes, I know it's only a bit of fun, and the average viewer doesn't realise it's incorrect, and probably doesn't care, either, but JRRT took years to work out the Elven languages and alphabets - he basically wrote the books as appendices to the languages, not vice versa - and it does annoy me when some torog unwittingly mangles them because it looks pretty.

Sorry, I've had a bad day...

 

[Hugh]

Excellent photos!

 

[Boaz]

The drawings that leap to mind are the ones I did on scrapped computer paper back in the seventies. I drew a lot of scenes... The Battle of the Five Armies... The Battle of the Hornburg.... The Nazgul flying round Cirith Ungol... Gandalf and the Dwarves losing Bilbo in the Misty Mountains... And I drew maps from memory.

I live in Denver, Colorado. There are times when I am out on the Great Plains and I look west to the Rocky Mountains while the sun lights up the peaks while clouds shadow the plains and I think... ah, the White Mountains and there is Edoras... Forth Eorlingas!

And then I realize that I'm looking west at the mountains instead of south or southwest and the White Mountains ananlogy seems stupid... Ah... the Pelori! I am in Eldamar...

 

[stormcrow]

Ear to the ground ... I think I heard hooves...

 

[svalbard]

Looking out over the Golden Vale from Galteee Mor in Co. Tipperary on a beautiful spring morning. Could be looking out at Rohan if you stretch your imagination.

 

[Stephen Palmer]

Very much so!
The plains west of the hills on LOTR. Nice one.

 

[The Big Peat]

Minus the sea in the background, I always imagined the barrows as looking something like this.

 

[Kerrybuchanan]

Yes, that's exactly how I saw them when I read the books.

 

[hitmouse]

Looking back down the ridge of Skirrid Fawr, in Monmouthshire. The Shire in the background, obviously.

 

[Astro Pen]

One of my paintings of the Brecon Beacons.
Oil on panel. Obviously I have raised the mythological feel somewhat for dramatic effect!

 

[Brian G Turner]

Bing's UK & Ireland homepage today is of Puzzlewood in Gloucester, and suggests it may have inspired Tolkien's woodlands:

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More images:

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Official Puzzlewood website:

Puzzlewood | Days Out with the Kids | Places to Visit Forest of Dean Gloucestershire

Explore Puzzlewood, a magical ancient woodland attraction for all ages in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. Popular TV & film location, playground, animals,

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[Kerrybuchanan]

I took this today, because it's how I imagine Weathertop from afar.

North Antrim Coast road.

 

[hitmouse]

One for @Extollager
Taken from the window of the car I was driving as I took my son up to start his degree at Oxford today.

 

[Narkalui]

@hitmouse congrats to your boy getting into Oxford! (I'm assuming it's not Oxford Brooks...)

 

[hitmouse]

Thanks.
Yes, Oxford University. His college is ridiculously beautiful.

My BIL went to Oxford Brooks as it had the specialist engineering course he wanted, and thoroughly enjoyed it.

 

[Narkalui]

A friend of my Brother went to Brooks and for every job he's applied for he put Oxford University in his CV, it was misleading and extremely disingenuous but not, technically, a lie...