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Looking back….
I spend so much time in these rocks as a kid but only last autumn managed to return there to take pictures. I do not feel as if I made the best use of the Location, so obviously I need to do it again. Also, never try to be a photographer while wearing all that armor…
Mornienna took the photo.
The walls of Caras Neldorath.
Would you stand before these gates as a friend, or as an enemy?
It is an immense team effort by the Lager der Elben construction team to put this stockade into place for each Epic Empires. The modules have to be carried to the location and assembled there, and after the event, they are again disassembled and carried to their storage location. My part in this was very small: During the original planning phase I gave feedback and Ideas to how it looks from the outside and what it should support gameplay-wise: Limited cover for defending archers and plenty of space where enemies can try to climb the wall.
The photo was taken by The Kelric View
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“I like to call the Fëanturi, the blind gods. Not because they cannot see but they are bound by principles. Bound by what has been (death), what could be (dreams), and what is being done (grief).”-Ardie
I’ve always liked to imagine that the “more dangerous and less wise” reputation of Mirkwood was created entirely on purpose by the Elves themselves to ward off people who didn’t know better.
It would fit with the canon fact that the Rohirrim believed a strange sorceress lived in the Golden Wood (“few escape her nets, they say”). And Treebeard, when asked by Merry why they were warned against Fangorn Forest by Celeborn, said that had Merry and Pippin been going the other way, he would’ve warned them against Lothlórien, since “I am surprised that you ever got out, but much more surprised that you ever got in”.
Mirkwood and Lothlórien both have a reputation of being “dangerous and strange places” and I like to think Galadriel and Thranduil encouraged that reputation as an extra layer of protection for their people.
but also because it’s mysterious and sexy to be a pretty blond powerful ruler of big pretty powerful forest
The Elven-realms of Middle-earth
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We all agree Irmo is a big butterfly boy.