Middle-Earth Tours

Tour 2: The Places of Middle-Earth

Rohan

Fair Travels in Border Lands,
by Rob Alexander


The Chase of Aragorn,
Legolas and Gimli, by Alan Lee

Turning back they saw across the River the far hills kindled. Day leaped into the sky. The red rim of the sun rose over the shoulders of the dark land. Before them in the West the world lay still, formless and grey; but even as they looked, the shadows of night melted, the colours of the waking earth returned: green flowed over the wide meads of Rohan; the white mists shimmered in the water-vales; and far off to the left, thirty leagues or more, blue and purple stood the White Mountains, rising into peaks of jet, tipped with glimmering snows, flushed with the rose of morning. --TTT, "The Riders of Rohan"

At the bottom they came with a strange suddenness on the grass of Rohan. it swelled like a green sea up to the very foot of the Emyn Muil. The falling stream vanished into a deep growth of cresses and water-plants, and they could hear it tinkling away in green tunnels, down long gentle slopes toward the fens of Entwash Vale far away. They seemed to have left winter clinging to the hills behind. Here the air was softer and warmer, and faintly scented, as if spring was already stirring and the sap was flowing again in herb and leaf. Legolas took a deep breath, like one that drinks a great draught after long thirst in barren places. 'Ah! The green smell!' he said. 'It is better than much sleep. Let us run!' --TTT, "The Riders of Rohan"

from a trailer on the official
movie site
Pursuit in Rohan, by Ted Nasmith
With astonishing speed and skill they checked their steeds, wheeled, and came charging round. Soon the three companions found themselves in a ring of horsemen moving in a running circle, up the hill-slope behind them and down, round and round them, and drawing ever inwards. Aragorn stood silent, and the other two sat without moving, wondering what way things would turn. TTT, "The Riders of Rohan"
The Riders of Rohan, by Anke-Katrin Eiszmann

image from the TTT preview on the FotR DVD, via theonering.net
image from the TTT preview on the FotR DVD, via theonering.net

Middle-Earth Tours features three different stops in Rohan:
Edoras


Edoras, by Alan Lee

 Helm's Deep


The Battle of the Hornburg,
by Alan Lee

 Dunharrow


Dunharrow, by Roger Garland

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