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A different perspective on the Great Wall. This time we are looking down from the top of the section that we were climbing on. I borrowed the title for the photo from the Hobbit but it just fitted our hike to the top of the wall and then back down. I can imagine soldiers having to do it every day and night for many years - there and back again as the Emperor commanded.
We'd bought one another a Ruby Wedding treat- a flight out of Fairwood Airport in a light plane. Little did I know that it was husband Huw who was going to be flying it ( apart from take off and landing) which made me somewhat apprehensive hence the caption . Totally unfounded of course because we had a great and safe flight all the way to Tenby and back along the South Gower Coast. Here he is in comments..
This photo is inspired by Helga-n-Kenty's songs "Ways of the MiddleEarth" and "Cause to set off"
The map is taken from www.thereandbackagain.net
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“And now the times are changing
The things I've seen before don't look the same
My life is rearranging
But falls apart with whispers of your name”
Song: Willingly
Album: There And Back Again
Theme: 30 Vertical Degrees
Year Eleven Of My 365 Project
“It's three A.M. and he's been feeling lonely
Work's been hard and the city's hard too
He picks up the phone and halfway across the country
A brother listens to his blues he says”
Song: Lines Upon Your Face
Album: There And Back Again
What a beautiful song about growing up, yet never losing the bonds of brotherhood or sisterhood formed in your youth.
Theme: 30 Vertical Degrees
Year Eleven Of My 365 Project
I started my Tolkien project in August 2018, half a decade ago, by building the first vignette for my ‘The Hobbit’ series.
I would never have imagined that this journey would take so long. Along the way I met many people, some wrote nice comments and left likes, some gave me advice and tips, some motivated me and some helped me by providing me with information or even actively participating in the project.
I would like to thank all of you for helping me make my largest LEGO project to date a reality. Five years – I would call it an experience of a lifetime.
A special thanks to all of my friends who actively participated in this project:
and to every single one who left even a single like.
And now, please enjoy my LEGO version of Bag End as seen in the incredible movie trilogies. Here, everything started and here, everything ends.
"Well, I'm back"
“A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.”
—Gertrude Jekyll
“I always tell my students it’s important to write what you know...but at the same time the idea of writing what you know can lead to a recreation of a lot of old ways of seeing the world, so I say you also need to write the world you want to see.” - Susan Tan, Author of "Cilla Lee-Jenkins: Future Author Extraordinaire"
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"The Kingdom"
At times
the heart
stands back
and looks at the body,
looks at the mind,
as a lion
quietly looks
at the not-quite-itself,
not-quite-another,
moving of shadows and grass.
Wary, but with interest,
considers its kingdom.
Then seeing
all that will be,
heart once again enters—
enters hunger, enters sorrow,
enters finally losing it all.
To know, if nothing else,
what it once owned.
- Jane Hirshfield
tu me connaîtras mieux
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It's never quite as it seems
✪
Is this the answer?
"Yes, this is the answer
dependent on which question
you may pose"
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2011 © Christina Melton
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“Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the Great Mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
"Moria. You fear to go into those mines. The Dwarves dug too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dûm... shadow and flame."
It's sure sign of a 'bad weather day' when I dive into the archives. This is Caswell Bay taken on the flight around Gower which was a wedding anniversary present to one another.
“So I lie with all my failures
Praying to my best friend's ghost
Time to kneel instead of sitting
And let me do thy bidding
Won't you let me do thy bidding yeah”
Song: Prayer For An Innocent Man
Album: There And Back Again
Theme: 30 Vertical Degrees
Year Eleven Of My 365 Project
In celebration of the Vancouver premiere of The Hobbit, here is a panorama I took in New Zealand last month.
Members of the Minas Morgul corps, these two get along perfectly well unless there's something shiny to fight over.
Nine mortal men, doomed the moment they took possession of their rings. They exist as wraiths now, unkillable shadows from the nethweworld.
I started my Tolkien project in August 2018, half a decade ago, by building the first vignette for my ‘The Hobbit’ series.
I would never have imagined that this journey would take so long. Along the way I met many people, some wrote nice comments and left likes, some gave me advice and tips, some motivated me and some helped me by providing me with information or even actively participating in the project.
I would like to thank all of you for helping me make my largest LEGO project to date a reality. Five years – I would call it an experience of a lifetime.
A special thanks to all of my friends who actively participated in this project:
and to every single one who left even a single like.
And now, please enjoy my LEGO version of Bag End as seen in the incredible movie trilogies. Here, everything started and here, everything ends.
"Well, I'm back"
On the way home from Yosemite, I shot out the window...still working out the whole noise reduction thing, but all in all, I'm pretty happy with this!!
Path where Gandalf and Frodo drive through in The Fellowship of the Ring and where Bilbo runs out through in An Unexpected Journey.
One of the last remnants of the Black Numenoreans, the Mouth of Sauron had long since forgotten his own name, so devoted was he to his master.
Although ordinarily invisible to the human eye, the Nazgul's spectral bodies can be seen by those wielding the One Ring. However... they can see you, as well.