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Bombadil
Gondolin
Feb 3 2013, 4:16am
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Northern Latitudes of Middle earth
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While reading TH as a kid
there was a snow storm and it
seem that we were
in the
northern latitudes...
Then the Lord of the Rings
was like
a" world tour of Middle earth?"
Even down to Rohan
and finally mordor
The Hobbit is literally the same latitude across Middle Earth so temperate rainforests are going to be
Mossy Mirkwood
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The Mitch King
Nargothrond
Feb 3 2013, 4:34am
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I have the hardest time understanding your posts haha
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Lusitano
Dor-Lomin
Feb 3 2013, 2:32pm
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our very own Tom Bombadil. Nobody understood him as well.
Vous commencez à m'ennuyer avec le port!!!
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painjoiker
Hithlum
Feb 3 2013, 4:13pm
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And TORn wouldn't be the same without him!
Vocalist in the progressive metal band Renamed.
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Bombadil
Gondolin
Feb 3 2013, 4:28pm
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okay if Middle Earth is an ancient Europe
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The Shire is directly West of the Lonely Mountain.
They go even further north when they stop in at Beorn's.
which might as well be South Scandinavia.
Rohan & Gondor, in the movies
It seem like it was too Southern.
When the dwarves enter Mirkwood they can't even Light a fire?
Wet raining from the Misty Mountains ( so think temperate rainforest)
Only 3 places on our planet have temperate rainforests.
Olympic Peninsula in Washington and Oregon, Patagonia in southern Argentina and yes down in a fiordlands of Southern New Zealand!
(This post was edited by Bombadil on Feb 3 2013, 4:33pm)
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Lusitano
Dor-Lomin
Feb 3 2013, 5:12pm
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would be in.....Russia?
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sharpened_graphite
Ossiriand
Feb 3 2013, 5:58pm
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Mirkwood is the name of a forest mentioned in the Nibelungenlied...
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...so Mirkwood would be somewhere in Germany.
That said, Beorn's name originally was Medwed (Russian for "bear"), so who knows...
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Lusitano
Dor-Lomin
Feb 3 2013, 6:01pm
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the spiders?
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Êleniel Tindome
Ossiriand
Feb 3 2013, 8:06pm
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Mirkwood - Schwarzwald (maybe)...
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...in germany.... very huge forest, but dont now bout the spiders and elves living there. Iam from germany but never been there. Btw we have a lot of huge and different beautiful forests worth visiting...
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swordwhale
Dor-Lomin
Feb 3 2013, 8:20pm
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Mirky woods and northern latitudes...
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I live in Pennsylvania, which translates as Penn's Woods (William Penn, founder, etc)... it's rather mirky in places, temperate, though not rainforesty.
We did have a senator named Greenleaf... legit: Stewart J. Greenleaf. I can't make this stuff up.
Probably have some Dwarves too, as there is a large mining industry here.
Go outside and play...
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swordwhale
Dor-Lomin
Feb 3 2013, 8:22pm
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aren't the Brothers "ur" (Bifur, Bofur, Bombur) from somewhere in the "north"... Bofur, especially, channels Alaskan/Yukon gold miner...
I picture them mushing Malamutes across the tundra or something...
Go outside and play...
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sharpened_graphite
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Feb 3 2013, 9:03pm
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Wikipedia also mentions Schwarzwald as the possible real life Mirkwood:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrkvi%C3%B0r
And there's also a quote from Tolkien at the bottom of the page about the name Mirkwood and its etymology.
I flew on a plane over a forest or two in Germany (not Schwarzwald), didn't have the opportunity to actually visit them but it still was a spectacular view.
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TheSexyBeard
Menegroth
Feb 3 2013, 10:18pm
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aren't the Brothers "ur" (Bifur, Bofur, Bombur) from somewhere in the "north"... Bofur, especially, channels Alaskan/Yukon gold miner...
I picture them mushing Malamutes across the tundra or something...
I think they are meant to be from the Blue Mountains, West of the Shire. Open invitation to the forum to correct me if I've gotten my geography and Dwarf homes wrong
Yes, my username is terrible.
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