Middle-Earth Tours

Tour 2: The Places of Middle-Earth

Caradhras

Caradhras, by Alan Lee 		On the third morning Caradhras rose before them, a mighty peak, tipped with snow like silver, but with sheer naked sides dull red as if stained with blood. --FotR, "The Ring Goes South"

They tramped on again. But they had not gone more than a furlong when the storm returned with fresh fury. The wind whistled and the snow became a blinding blizzard. Soon even Boromir found it hard to keep going....
     The Company halted suddenly, as if they had come to an agreement without any words being spoken. They heard eerie noises in the darkness round them. It may have been only a trick of the wind in the cracks and gullies of the rocky wall, but the sounds were those of shrill cries, and wild howls of laughter. Stones began to fall from the mountain-side, whistling over their heads, or crashing on the path beside them. Every now and again they heard a dull rumble, as a great boulder rolled down from hidden heights above. --FotR, "The Ring Goes South"

That dark little curl in the lower left corner of Lee's painting is the Fellowship traveling the road to Caradhras.


Approaching Caradhras, by
John Howe


image from the second commercial, available on the official movie site
The Redhorn Pass, by Ted Nasmith
The Fellowship on Caradhras,
by Luca Michelucci

The Nine Walkers on Caradhras in an image from the official movie site's first trailer, with thanks to theonering.net

Full-size versions of these pictures are on display at Rolozo Tolkien and the official LotR movie site