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Rilder 04-06-11 11:52 AM

Gondar is in Ethiopia, and Isengard and the White Wizard Saruhan is in Turkey. :O:

Aragon
of course will soon rule Gondar.

Buddahaid 04-06-11 08:25 PM

Works pretty good except The Shire is way too far south.

tater 04-06-11 08:45 PM

I al;ways saw the Misty Mountains as the Himalaya.

I read LOTR each of 2 visits there

Buddahaid 04-06-11 10:00 PM

I know what you mean. I first read it when about age twelve camping in Oregon.

PhantomLord 04-07-11 06:41 AM

Rohan... :hmmm:

where´s me horse... me noggin, noggin horse?
all gone for beer and tobacco

Torplexed 04-07-11 07:13 AM

I guess Sauron won in the end now that the EU is running everything. :D

PhantomLord 04-07-11 07:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Torplexed (Post 1637690)
I guess Sauron won in the end now that the EU is running everything. :D

Hungary ... ehmm... MORDOR leads the european council at the moment! :arrgh!:
Followed by Poland (?) and Denmark (Dunlad)

UnderseaLcpl 04-07-11 02:54 PM

Geographic and topographical similarities be damned. Contrary to Torplexed's claim, Texas is the only proper home of the horse-lords, so we're Rohan, not some homeland for overly effeminate people who look like men but actually aren't. Well, maybe Austin could be described as such... but not the rest of the state!

TLAM Strike 04-07-11 03:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Feuer Frei! (Post 1636875)
Mt. Doom---Uzhhorod, Ukaine

I would have gone with Pripyat. ;)

DarkFish 04-07-11 03:10 PM

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Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl (Post 1637962)
Geographic and topographical similarities be damned. Contrary to Torplexed's claim, Texas is the only proper home of the horse-lords, so we're Rohan, not some homeland for overly effeminate people who look like men but actually aren't. Well, maybe Austin could be described as such... but not the rest of the state!

Texas?!:har: You know who the real horse-lords are? The Netherlands, located in Northwestern Rohan on the map:yeah:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batavi_...manic_tribe%29
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Finds of horse skeletons in graves suggest a strong equestrian preoccupation.
[...]
Well-regarded for their skills in horsemanship and swimming—for men and horses could cross the Rhine without losing formation
[...]
The Batavi also provided a contingent for the Emperor's Horse Guard.

Tchocky 04-07-11 03:40 PM

The Dutch gave up on horses after the invention of the bicycle :D

Weiss Pinguin 04-07-11 04:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Tchocky (Post 1637987)
The Dutch gave up on horses after the invention of the bicycle :D

http://davidavery.files.wordpress.co...-de-france.jpg
"Ride now! Ride to ruin, and the World's endiiiiiing!"

UnderseaLcpl 04-08-11 10:12 AM

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Originally Posted by DarkFish (Post 1637976)
Texas?!:har: You know who the real horse-lords are? The Netherlands, located in Northwestern Rohan on the map:yeah:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batavi_...manic_tribe%29

Sure about that? How many horsemen do you have now? How many times have the exceptional cavalry of the Netherlands been cited or referenced in popular culture?:O:

Texans = horse lords. And that's without the need for a warlike barbarian culture that happens to use horses because it needs to. We're horse-lords because we choose to be. :smug:

Bakkels 04-08-11 10:20 AM

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Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl (Post 1638493)
Sure about that? How many horsemen do you have now? How many times have the exceptional cavalry of the Netherlands been cited or referenced in popular culture?:O:

Texans = horse lords. And that's without the need for a warlike barbarian culture that happens to use horses because it needs to. We're horse-lords because we choose to be. :smug:

Well I think the native Americans would be the real horse lords. But you're right though, we never had any cavalry worth mentioning.

UnderseaLcpl 04-09-11 12:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Bakkels (Post 1638505)
Well I think the native Americans would be the real horse lords.

That's debatable. They didn't even have horses until the bloody Spaniards came along and demonstrated their ineptitude at keeping horses in an enclosure.


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But you're right though, we never had any cavalry worth mentioning.
Yay! Texas wins again!

Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn!


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