fav city

[kiddstodd]

whats your fav city in middle earth?

[Beor]

Gondolin. That city is the most amazing thing to me, and I dont know why. It just seem so incredible. Way better than Nargothrond;) ;) (SGH)

[Sister Golden Hair]

Originally posted by Beor
Gondolin. That city is the most amazing thing to me, and I dont know why. It just seem so incredible. Way better than Nargothrond;) ;) (SGH) Hey watch it there soldier.:p ;)

[Artanis]

Yep Beor, must be marvellous Gondolin. :)

[Beor]

Ha!:D ;) :p

Thank you, Artanis;) :D

[Artanis]

:D :p
BTW Beor, love that pic your avatar is taken from.

[Beor]

I do too, its one of my favorite pictures. I would like to get the actual painting. I'm sure it has so much more depth than a freakin' computer rendering of it. Alas for Gondolin!

[Falagar]

Gondolin! Nargothrond is Moss in comparison! ;)
"Then sank the sun, and they saw Gondolin no more"
Alas indeed.

[Artanis]

Originally posted by Falagar
Gondolin! Nargothrond is Moss in comparison! ;)LOL! :p

[Sister Golden Hair]

You guys are not funny.:p

But how is this for a surprise? I also choose Gondolin. Nargothrond was a huge realm with an underground fortress and palace, so I wouldn't really consider it a city. Gondolin was more concentrated. It is given a larger more dramatic desription than Nargothrond. I picture Nargothrond as a large country of green hills and fields stretching a great distance along the Narog.

[Tuor of Gondolin]

Well, Gondolin is cool, with some neat elvish babes, especially if you're got Ulmo as a sponsor (hee, hee), but Bree has great beer.

Mmmmm! Beer!

[Valandil]

Annuminas, of course! :D It's totally left up to our imagination.

I should warn you folks about Gondolin... it's like 'Hotel California'... you can check out any time you like, but you can't never leave! :p

[cassiopeia]

Does Hobbiton count as a city? :)

[Jonathan]

The Grey Havens because its close to the sea. Gondolin is just too isolated.

[Beor]

Originally posted by Valandil


I should warn you folks about Gondolin... it's like 'Hotel California'... you can check out any time you like, but you can't never leave! :p

:p :D The Eagles rock!!! I like the connection you made, I had never thought about it (although I do think of The Grateful Dead every time I read about Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas running across Rohan (Truckin')).

[Twista]

Show me some Tirion...

[Falagar]

Originally posted by Valandil
Annuminas, of course! :D It's totally left up to our imagination.

I should warn you folks about Gondolin... it's like 'Hotel California'... you can check out any time you like, but you can't never leave! :p
Wasn't that supposed to be an analogy for drugs? :p Gondolin is then also addictive and causes a lot of happyness.

[Artanis]

Originally posted by Falagar
Wasn't that supposed to be an analogy for drugs? :p Gondolin is then also addictive and causes a lot of happyness. And abstinence syndroms when you're not there. :p
Poor Voronwë.

[Nerdanel]

Gondolin:) Maybe not after being there for ages and not getting out:p but still..

[Radagast The Brown]

Originally posted by Twista
Show me some Tirion... Tirion is in Valinor, and the question was on Middle Earth - but Gondolin suppose to be almost as much beautiful as Tirion, as mentioned in The Sil. So I choose Gondolin! :)

[brownjenkins]

rivendell... nice central location, good food and drink, never sacked ;)

[Valandil]

Originally posted by Beor
:p :D The Eagles rock!!! I like the connection you made, I had never thought about it (although I do think of The Grateful Dead every time I read about Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas running across Rohan (Truckin')).

Kinda funny that 'The Eagles' sang that song, and Tolkien's Eagles had such a close relationship with Gondolin... didn't even occur to me when I first posted that! :p

[Finrod Felagund]

Originally posted by Sister Golden Hair
You guys are not funny.:p

But how is this for a surprise? I also choose Gondolin. Nargothrond was a huge realm with an underground fortress and palace, so I wouldn't really consider it a city. Gondolin was more concentrated. It is given a larger more dramatic desription than Nargothrond. I picture Nargothrond as a large country of green hills and fields stretching a great distance along the Narog.

I agree there, best city is Gondolin, however, if I was posting in the best kingdom thread...

[Nerdanel]

I guess you couldn't call Isengard a city (?), but I think I'd like Isengard the way it was before Saruman destroyed it.
Nice location, with lots of trees, and ents, around:D

[ryttu3k]

I'm going to demonstrate that once again I haven't read a lot and just say Minas Tirith. What can I say, I'm a sucker for good architecture!

[Valandil]

Originally posted by ryttu3k
I'm going to demonstrate that once again I haven't read a lot and just say Minas Tirith. What can I say, I'm a sucker for good architecture!

No problem 'ryttu3k' (I'm wondering how to pronounce that! :p ) - I agree that it would be quite striking!

Personally, I imagine it as a bit 'flatter' than most depictions... sort of more spread out and taking up more space - lots of people had to live and work there, you know! I expect everyone sees it a bit differently though.

[Linaewen]

Originally posted by ryttu3k
I'm going to demonstrate that once again I haven't read a lot and just say Minas Tirith. What can I say, I'm a sucker for good architecture!
The Silmarillion has a lot of wonderful cities, and I have read that too. Gondolin for one. Though I still love Minas Tirith- what an idea for the layout of a city! Wonder if I could build a house like it...

[Valandil]

Originally posted by Linaewen
The Silmarillion has a lot of wonderful cities, and I have read that too. Gondolin for one. Though I still love Minas Tirith- what an idea for the layout of a city! Wonder if I could build a house like it...

Now THAT gives me an idea! I should design a house that would be 1/10th scale of Minas Tirith... for the VERY RICH!$$$ :p It would be on and go up a hill, so it could have 7 levels of concentric circles, each 10' high - with a winding ramp connecting them on the outside (plus stairs - maybe elevators inside)... and a 30' high 'tower' at the top!

Hmmm... Bill Gates already has a house... wonder if he likes LotR!?

[Linaewen]

Originally posted by Valandil
Now THAT gives me an idea! I should design a house that would be 1/10th scale of Minas Tirith... for the VERY RICH!$$$ :p It would be on and go up a hill, so it could have 7 levels of concentric circles, each 10' high - with a winding ramp connecting them on the outside (plus stairs - maybe elevators inside)... and a 30' high 'tower' at the top!

Hmmm... Bill Gates already has a house... wonder if he likes LotR!?
Maybe stairs? I can't imagine anyone who'd want to walk up 7 flights of stairs! :D Will you have that massive jutting wall of stone that splits Minas Tirith in two? What about Tombs?

If we all saved up, I reckon us Mooters might eventually have enough money to have the Minas Tirith Mansion built. We could live there...uhhh...each with our own computers and chatting to each other on Entmoot. :confused: :D
(It wouldn't be Mooting if we weren't on Entmoot, now would it?)

[Arien the Maia]

Tirion or Valimar in Aman....in Mmiddle Earth, probably Caras Galadhon or Hobbiton

[Valandil]

Originally posted by Falagar
Wasn't that supposed to be an analogy for drugs? :p Gondolin is then also addictive and causes a lot of happyness.

Hey... it was the 70's!! EVERY R&R song was an analogy for drugs! :p

:eek:

:cool:

[Last Child of Ungoliant]

as everyone has chosen places of nice,
happy people, (elves/men/hobbitses)
i choose Barad-Dur,

although it is actually brilliant,
bridge over the abyss?
who can't love that?

[Lalaith_Elf]

I'd have to say Gondolin as well. And I'm too lazy at the moment to repeat why. Just read the posts above. But then I'd have to pick Mirkwoord next to it. That place has always had a special place in my corrupted heart. Ever since I first picked up a Tolkien book...:)

[Maedhros]

This is why Gondolin is the fairest city on ME:
"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.

Several sources were used for that description: Later Tuor, Q30, QS77, The Fall of Gondolin.