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Middle-Earth Tours Tour 2: The Places of Middle-Earth
Ithilien |
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 First Sight of Ithilien, by Ted Nasmith |
The growing light revealed to them a land already less barren and ruinous. The mountains still loomed up ominously on their left, but near at hand they could see the southward road, now bearing away from the black roots of the hills and slanting westward. Beyond it were slopes covered with sombre trees like dark clouds, but all about them lay a tumbled heathland, grown with ling and broom and cornel, and other shrubs that they did not know. --TTT, "Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit" | |
| Stew the rabbits!' squealed Gollum in dismay. 'Spoil beautiful meat Sméagol saved for you, poor hungry Sméagol! What for? What for, silly hobbit? They are young, they are tender, they are nice. Eat them, eat them! He clawed the nearest rabbit, already skinned and lying by the fire.--TTT, "Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit" |  image from DVD Town |
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 Encounter with Faramir, by Anke-Katrin Eiszmann |
 Ithilien, by Anke-Katrin Eiszmann |
 image courtesy of Empire Movies |
| 'We must learn more of this,' said Faramir, 'and know what brings you so far east under the shadow of yonder--,' he pointed and said no name. 'But for now. We have business in hand. You are in peril, and you would not have gone far ere the day is full. Then death, or swift flight back to Anduin. I will leave two to guard you, for your good and for mine." --TTT, "Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit" | ||
| On the great beast thundered, blundering in blind wrath through pool and thicket. Arrows skipped and snapped harmlessly about the triple hide of his flanks. Men of both sides fell before him, but many he overtook and crushed to the ground.... --TTT, "Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit" |  The Oliphaunt, by Inger Edelfeldt |
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 The War of the Ring, by John Howe |
 from a Decipher trading card |
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 image from a Decipher trading card |
He stepped up beside the silent sentinel on the dark edge, and Frodo followed. Sam hung back. He already felt insecure enough on this high wet platform. Faramir and Frodo looked down. Far below them they saw the white waters pour into a foaming bowl, and then swirl darkly about a deep oval basin in the rocks, until they found their way out again through a narrow gate, and flowed away, fuming and chattering, into calmer and more level reaches. The moonlight still slanted down to the fall's foot and gleamed on the ripples of the basin. --TTT, "The Forbidden Pool" | |
 Gollum, by Roger Garland |
 Henneth Annun, by Rob Alexander |
 Henneth Annun, by Ted Nasmith |
| Presently Frodo was aware of a small dark thing on the near bank, but even as he looked at it, it dived and vanished just beyond the boil and bubble of the fall, cleaving the black water as neatly as an arrow or an edgewise stone. --TTT, "The Forbidden Pool" | ||
 image from Andy Serkis's official site |
There was a sharp hiss. Presently out of the darkness Gollum came crawling on all fours, like an erring dog called to heel. He had a half-eaten fish in his mouth and another in his hand. He came close to Frodo, almost nose to nose, and sniffed at him. His pale eyes were shining. Then he took the fish out of his mouth and stood up.--TTT, "The Forbidden Pool" | |
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