Europe as Middle Earth. (For you LOTR fans). - Page 2

04-06-11, 11:52 AM

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

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...

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.

PhantomLord · 04-07-11, 07:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Torplexed

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

Hungary ... ehmm... MORDOR leads the european council at the moment!

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!

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

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?!

You know who the real horse-lords are? The Netherlands, located in Northwestern Rohan on the map

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

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Finds of horse skeletons in graves suggest a strong equestrian preoccupation.
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Well-regarded for their skills in horsemanship and swimming—for men and horses could cross the Rhine without losing formation
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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

Weiss Pinguin · 04-07-11, 04:29 PM

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

"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

Texas?!

You know who the real horse-lords are? The Netherlands, located in Northwestern Rohan on the map

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?

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.

Bakkels · 04-08-11, 10:20 AM

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Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl

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?

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.

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

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!

04-06-11, 08:25 PM	#17
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Buddahaid Shark above Space Chicken Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,326 Downloads: 162 Uploads: 0	I know what you mean. I first read it when about age twelve camping in Oregon. __________________ "However vast the darkness, we must provide our own light." Stanley Kubrick "Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming." David Bowie

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Torplexed Let's Sink Sumptin' ! Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 5,823 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	I guess Sauron won in the end now that the EU is running everything. __________________ --Mobilis in Mobili--

04-06-11, 11:52 AM	#16
Rilder Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	Gondar is in Ethiopia, and Isengard and the White Wizard Saruhan is in Turkey. Aragon of course will soon rule Gondar.

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UnderseaLcpl Silent Hunter Join Date: May 2008 Location: Storming the beaches! Posts: 4,254 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	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! __________________ I stole this sig from Task Force

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