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the autumn trees of nature at outside yard of nature area at the nature area is at the sunlight from outdoors is more stunned and amazing of the area is looking sharp of the nature area for the temperature weather of the sunlight of the natural
the Ochroma pyramidale tree of sunlight nature at the outside of from outdoors of more stunned and amazing of the area of nature area need is looking sharp of the area for the temperature weather the of the natural is brighten at outdoors
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the Water Oak tree with sunlight nature at the outside of from outdoors of more stunned and amazing of the area of nature area need is looking sharp of the area for the temperature weather the of the natural is brighten at outdoors
the river nature on the nature falls of sunlight at the outside of from outdoors of more stunned and amazing of the area of nature area need is looking sharp of the area for the temperature weather the of the natural is brighten at outdoors
the contrast highlights of exposure and on the highway of the foreground at outdoors and and of the scenery is more sunlight from outdoors is more stunned and amazing of the scenery is looking of the temperature weather
Taken on the way to Mordor, with a young Hobbit I found on the way.
Three sides of Mordor were bounded by mountain ranges, arranged in a rough rectangle: Ered Lithui, translated as 'Ash Mountains' in the north, and the Ephel Dúath ("Fence of Shadow") in the west and the south. In the northwest the pass of Cirith Gorgor led into the enclosed plain of Udûn. Sauron built the Black Gate of Mordor (the Morannon) across the pass, joining the Towers of the Teeth, two earlier guard towers built by Gondor to keep a watch on this entrance. The passage through the inner side of Udûn into the interior of Mordor was guarded by another gate, the Isenmouthe. Outside the Morannon lay the Dagorlad or Battle Plain.
In the interior within this mountainous border lay Sauron's main fortress Barad-dûr, the arid plateau of Gorgoroth, and Mount Doom. To the east lay the plain of Lithlad. A narrow pass led through the Ephel Dúath, guarded by Minas Morgul (earlier Minas Ithil). A higher, more difficult pass, Cirith Ungol, just to the north, was guarded by a tower originally built by Gondor. This pass, "the pass of the spider", was also blockaded by Torech Ungol, the lair of the giant spider Shelob. The fortress Durthang lay in the northern Ephel Dúath above Udûn.
Núrn, the southern part of Mordor, was less arid and more fertile. Streams here fed the salt Sea of Núrnen. Sauron's slaves farmed this region to support his armies.
To the west of Mordor lay the narrow land of Ithilien, to the northeast Rhûn, and to the southeast, Khand. To the northwest lay the Dead Marshes.
Inside the Ephel Dúath ran a lower parallel ridge, the Morgai, separated from the Ephel Dúath by a narrow valley that Frodo and Sam followed northward after escaping from Cirith Ungol. Water trickled into this vale from the Ephel Dúath, and the text describes it as a "dying land not yet dead". The vegetation included "low scrubby trees", "coarse grey grass-tussocks", "withered mosses", "great writhing, tangled brambles", and thickets of briars with long, stabbing thorns. The fauna included maggots, midges, and flies marked with "a red eye-shaped blotch".
In The Atlas of Middle-earth, Karen Wynn Fonstad assumed that the lands of Mordor, Khand, and Rhûn lay where the inland Sea of Helcar had been, and that the Sea of Rhûn and Sea of Núrnen were its remnants. This assumption stemmed from a First Age world-map drawn by Tolkien in the Ambarkanta, where the Inland Sea of Helcar occupied a large area of Middle-earth between the Ered Luin and Orocarni, with the western end being close to the head of the Great Gulf (later the Mouths of Anduin). The atlas was however published before The Peoples of Middle-earth, in which the Sea of Rhûn and Mordor exist already in the First Age.
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Looking back towards the peak in Faerie Glen, Skye with one of the many grassy rounded hills to my right.
A very picturesque landscape and one I had not encountered during my previous visits up to the island despite driving very nearby on a number of occasions without realising.
Pineapple Grove
Trompe Loeil - Dorina Cottage Cloud
Skye Enchanted Tree Tunnel
DFS Peach Tree
Jian :: Cobblestone Path
Street-Sign - Broken Pride Productions - Misty Payne
A few more pics of the macaques of Gibraltar. A lively and entertaining crowd that more often than not didn't mind posing for the camera.
Eigg from the Cuillin, Isle of Skye
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Apologies for my poor show on Flickr lately - recently moved house and been doing a lot of renovation work. Will get caught up soon.
A few more pics of the macaques of Gibraltar. A lively and entertaining crowd that more often than not didn't mind posing for the camera.
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