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Taken from Los Gigantes in Tenerife, looking towards La Gomera.
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I'm going to try and match some of my photos with poems this month, wish me luck!
Cat
The fat cat on the mat
may seem to dream
of nice mice that suffice
for him, or cream;
but he free, maybe,
walks in thought
unbowed, proud, where loud
roared and fought
his kin, lean and slim,
or deep in den
in the East feasted on beasts
and tender men.
The giant lion with iron
claw in paw,
and huge ruthless tooth
in gory jaw;
the pard dark-starred,
fleet upon feet,
that oft soft from aloft
leaps upon his meat
where woods loom in gloom --
far now they be,
fierce and free,
and tamed is he;
but fat cat on the mat
kept as a pet
he does not forget.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
"Understanding Tolkien and the Lord of the Rings," by William Ready. Warner Paperback Library.
Back in the days when even casual readers appreciated a little help from scholars. Paperback edition of a well-known commentary.
Azog on his white warg (not in this wave's set) together with an orc on the dark brown warg from 79012 Mirkwood Elf Army.
The Two Towers on Waterworks Road that may have inspired the second Lord of the Rings book by J. R. R. Tolkien.
Severn Trent Water are based down here in Edgbaston.
Further down Waterworks Road is the Waterworks Tower within a Severn Trent facility.
This is the Edgbaston Waterworks Tower inside Severn Trent Water Edgbaston.
Edgbaston Waterworks (Edgbaston Pumping Station) (grid reference SP0455386465) lies to the east of Edgbaston Reservoir, two miles west of the centre of Birmingham, England.
The buildings were designed by John Henry Chamberlain and William Martin around 1870. The engine house, boiler house, and chimney are Grade II listed buildings. The site is operated by Severn Trent Water. Despite the close proximity to Edgbaston Reservoir there is no current or historical connection of the water. This waterworks manages domestic water supply whereas the reservoir was built to feed the canal system.
It has been suggested, but not proven, that the towers of Perrott's Folly and Edgbaston Waterworks may have influenced references to towers in the writings of J. R. R. Tolkien, who lived nearby as a child.
WATERWORKS ROAD
1.
5104
Edgbaston B16
Pumphouse and attached
storeroom, standby
generator room and
ornamented chimney stack
at Edgbaston Pumping
Station
SP 0488 SE 36/17 17.8.79
II
2.
C1870, by J H Chamberlain and W Martin. Polychrome brick; slate roof. Pumphouse.
Tall gabled building with 3 tall lancet windows and 4 trefoiled and gabled windows
in the roof. The entrance up steps and flanked by buttresses. Above, in the
gable, a roundel in a lancet head. Attached and to the right are 3 lower gabled
buildings, 2 of them now used as storerooms and the third as a standby generator
room. Their forebuildings all demolished and the exposed walls now painted At
the rear of the standby generator room stands the ornamented chimney stack. Square
in plan and with some Doric dressings. First stage with broad lancets; second
stage with 2 light Decorated style windows; third stage with single lancets with a
band of quatrefoils over; fourth stage with coupled Decorated style windows; there
a bracketed balcony with iron railings and an octagonal turret with lancets in
the sites and a truncated spire on top.
Organized a photo shoot with my Tolkien group's cosplayers and my photo group Lomomanila. We used a bunch of toycameras in this shoot, but we took shots with digital cameras as well.
These are the first few shots, all from my digital camera.
This group of trees, with their gnarly roots, inspired J.R.R. Tolkien to write The Hobbit. At least that is what our guide told us... (Avebury Henge, England)
Illustration by WETA concept artist Nick Keller, of Dwalin.
Used here as a Messenger of the King (Contract) variant for those that want a lower cost Dwarf Spirit Sentinel hero.
79014 Dol Guldur Battle in its entirety. To me this set (as well as 79011 and 79012) seems to be only focused on the minifigs. I feel that the structures in those three set leave me rather unsatisfied. I have saved 79013 Lake Town Chase for last as I feel that the buildings in that set will be the most fun to build and display.
Model tram on Birmingham Society of Model Engineers stand at the Tolkien Fair in Hall Green yesterday.