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[fresiak]

Regardless of how great a story The Lord Of The Rings is, i can't believe it, but "Ein Ring sie zu knechten, sie alle zu finden, ins Dunkle zu treiben und ewig zu binden" is arguably better than "One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them"

[nerdneeds]

Speak friend and enter!

[foerodens]

A waterfall surrounded by trees and brushes in autumn colors. Doesn't it remind you of Rivendell?

Photo: Foe Rodens

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#8 The Lord of the Rings

by J. R. R. Tolkien English

Well. This one doesn't really need an introduction.

I've first read it when I was 15 and it blew me away like no other book before or afterwards.

Since then I've read pretty much all his Middle Earth related work.

This is the one I keep coming back to on a regular basis every 1-2 years or so, for the past 33 years since the 1st read.

I took the title picture from my issue of the Harper Collins Paperback edition from 1995. It was the 1st English book I had read (originating and currently still living in Germany) and in the meantime its pages are pretty worn out and start becoming all yellow. I love it. A few years back I also got me a Kindle edition for practical reasons and did my last re-reads with that one, but now I decided to pick up this old little baby once more. I want to really feel it again and smell the well-aged pages...

So, let the journey begin...

Roads go ever ever on, Over rock and under tree, By caves where never sun has shone, By streams that never find the sea; Over snow by winter sown, And through the merry flowers of June, Over grass and over stone, And under mountains in the moon. Roads go ever ever on Under cloud and under star, Yet feet that wandering have gone Turn at last to home afar. Eyes that fire and sword have seen And horror in the halls of stone Look at last on meadows green And trees and hills they long have known. The Road goes ever on and on, Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say. The Road goes ever on and on Out from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, Let others follow it who can! Let them a journey new begin, But I at last with weary feet Will turn towards the lighted inn, My evening-rest and sleep to meet.

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[wandering-harpist]

When winter first begins to bite

and stones crack in the frosty night,

when pools are black and trees are bare,

'tis evil in the Wild to fare.

*From the Fellowship of the Ring, book 2, by J.R.R.Tolkien*

What is your favourite time of day to take pictures?

I also met a pony, a really calm old lady. Her owner asked us what we were doing out there in that dreadful weather in costume, so we explained. Then suddenly she left her pony with us for a few minutes to get something from her car and we could take some pictures.

This is the last photo we took that day, I must have been frozen solid at that point but the light was just so beautiful. We went out to take pictures in the fog, but on the way back there was one clear hill, and the sun was just setting.

[weneedpeaceonthisplanet]

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