Pics of places that look like places from the films, or are just nice. [2]

Bluebells & ferns what a nice thought

How is this flat and empty? - Ringdrotten

Well I didnt say all it of it was, some of it has some big holes too

I were in Ireland last summer with my family and when I discovered that some of the GoT were filmed there, I got my father to drive there. This is from the scene were Arya runs away in season 1 or 2 (I don't quite remember)

azriel wrote:I like this sort of thing...

me too. its gorgeous.

huffjuff wrote:I were in Ireland last summer with my family and when I discovered that some of the GoT were filmed there, I got my father to drive there. This is from the scene were Arya runs away in season 1 or 2 (I don't quite remember)

nice!

Forest Shepherd wrote:And here I don't want to visit it! [New England] It just feels too crowded to me.

New England it NOT crowded. Just stay out from the cities, it's quintessential small town America.

hats kind of the impression I have gotten over the years- and lots of trees and hilly bits. Even look like the sort of place tha might get regular rain and drizzle, perfect!

That place is starting to sound suspiciously like somewhere else. (Scotland.)

While actually being England (New).. how weird.

Thats because the English have always wanted some proper countryside and dont have any- they only have the decently hilly northern bit because they sneakily moved the border further north so they had some decent scenery to look at and a respectable amount of rain

I dont find anything surprising anymore, Re: other countries & their terrain etc. If the planet more or less only had one huge landspace, broke up & drifted apart, its no wonder some segments look very much like 'home'. Scientists have found the same rock material in one country that is identifiable in another country MILES away, Its the same with trees & I think its trees that 'do it' for me. They are so readily recognizable. one ( or more ) species will grow happily in ANY country.

Thankfully the Baobabs have some international boundaries that they don't cross over usually.
Bloody baobabs...

Pettytyrant101 wrote:hats kind of the impression I have gotten over the years- and lots of trees and hilly bits. Even look like the sort of place tha might get regular rain and drizzle, perfect!

The East Coast (or at least the Northeast) is pretty similar to England in terms of vegetation too, AFAIK. It's just that so much of it has become massively urbanized that it's not always easy to get a read on the local environment.

Some pictures from around Oslo.







http://artikkel.ut.no/ut/hvorfor-er-oslomarka-sa-hoyt-elsket_-1.12022667

very nice indeed

Lovely ! The colour's look Autumnal to

Outskirts of Mirkwod maybe?

#isthatPeruLance?

#noitsecuadorfiggy

I'm sure the light and vegetation are all wrong to discerning Old World eyes like those of Petty, but that definitely looks Mirkwoody to me.

NB Was the camera tilted, or what makes the trees lean like that? I've seen leaning trees in Alaska where the snow had warped them, but I can't imagine that was the case in Ecuador, since there wouldn't be that many trees if you were far enough up in the mountains to get snow at that latitude.

Lancebloke wrote:Outskirts of Mirkwod maybe?

Yeah, does look quite Mirkwoody. Looks great anyway. So, what were you doing at the edge of irkwood? As far as I remember ther is little there but Beorn, and he's not necessarily very firendly to visitors.

Eldorion wrote:I'm sure the light and vegetation are all wrong to discerning Old World eyes like those of Petty, but that definitely looks Mirkwoody to me.

NB Was the camera tilted, or what makes the trees lean like that?  I've seen leaning trees in Alaska where the snow had warped them, but I can't imagine that was the case in Ecuador, since there wouldn't be that many trees if you were far enough up in the mountains to get snow at that latitude.

They do talk of some proper winters in the Shire, like the Long Winter. But I guess they probably didn't get it consistently.

The trees are leaning over to see what Jackson's doing next

I'm sure the light and vegetation are all wrong to discerning Old World eyes like those of Petty- Eldo

And you would be right too! Trees are too thin and whilst twisted they twist differently, and they are the wrong colour, and most of the undergrowth wouldn't pass either.

It reminds me of the Withywindle