Middle Earth...2 hours from the Shire and 2 hours from Mt Doom as the Falcon flies.



(translated as New Zealand North Island, very close to the filming locations of the Shire and Mt Doom )

Heh, well, it might be Paris now, but it's a toss up between that and Ghent (sp?) which is apparently a really beautiful place, despite being in B*lgium.

I always thought brussel sprouts were just the Belgians' revenge on the rest of the world for tracking mud across their country every few decades since time immortal or is that immoral?

Of course, I have never had fresh one, maybe they are more tasty than the ones my mother used to buy frozen at supermarket ever so many years ago. I do like turnips, rutabagas and parsnips though, so maybe I should try some fresh brussel sprouts. How does one cook them

I like brussels sprouts...(so I'm weird, ok?)...my mom makes them with bread crumbs and butter...they're really really good.

chikakat,
I would love to have the receipe for the brussel sprouts with bread crumbs. I have never had them that way. They sound great.

Prog I am with you on the habanero peppers. YIKES!!!!

Oh, good we are in a tavern, we can't be grondied in here. wheeeeew!

Thanks chikakat.
Habanero peppers make jalapeno peppers taste like cotton candy.

I have never actually eaten one, my husband had some and I could not get past the smell. He was in the kitchen, & I was in the living room when he cut one open. My eyes were stinging that far away. It was bad. Then again that was a fresh one. He ended up cooking with it. I picked mine out. but the flavor of the chilie was just too strong for me. Normally I like really spicey food, but not those little things.

Mellie loves asian food. I lived in Korea when I was 3 yrs old till I was 7 and did not know any other kind of food existed. I was very upset when we move to Texas after that. Tex-Mex, are authentic Mexican food just did NOT compare to that. Now it is a lot easier to find, but back then you just could not get true, asian food that was good.

Gimli knows where I'm from!!!! Or at least he should know!!!

I'm from South Africa!! Are there any more Africans around here????

Welcome to our site Silmarill

Star, I'm in Johannesburg.

But I'll be in Cape Town in February!!!

So, are there any more Africans around here??

I'm from 'Bismark, North Dakota, The United States of America'.

[Edited on 21/10/2002 by Elven_Archer]

Romania here-and ,unfortunatly,lately I tend to belive the only LOTR fan in this pathetic little country....................................

Nope,it just bred a couple of fellas I payed their tickets to see the movie.... just kidding.Yes,yes,there are fans-I corrupted half my class to see the movie and they loved it-2 of them even read the books-and liked them.But people round here are sooooooo obsessed with technoloogy and all they forget to dream(poethical moment ).And it's no one I can really talk to about it here and it's somehow...lonely.Considering the TT will be here on 28......F*****!FEBRUARY!!!!!!!!!!and the tape or DVD are not out yet here and god only knows when they will!....it gets a bit lonely.With all do regret,I'll get it pirated(you didn't see this last word )and watch it on 18 dec AS THE REST OF THE NORMAL WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Or buy a plane ticket-if my parents'll afford it and go in a-one-day visit to London or somewhere and see it on 18.
A pissed raptor.(you know,pissed not like in wetting myself!.....)
Sniff............

I’m from Norrkoping in sweden.

Hello all,

Currently I reside in Alabama USA. I grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana, and was born in Peoria, Illinois.

I have never travelled outside the USA, although I really want to go to Europe.

Michael

Hello to all newbies whom I haven't greeted before!

Hey Elentari! So you speak Russian then? I'm learning, but it's hard. I'm doing my best though. We really must start up this thread on Russian in one of the taverns soon!

Welcome back Anilorak, haven't seen your posts for a while.

I really liked Spain on my three trips there, but haven't been back since 1977, and all I remember about Barcelona was that I had to verify my baggage at the airport customs there, on my flight from London to Seville. So I suppose this comment is at most...

I'm from Cape Town, in South Africa

I LIVE IN ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
lol, actually i live in PA, near Reading. but i'm in ME more than i'm on this planet

hi all!

Grondy! so honoured you remembered where i lived- that makes my pathetic little existence actually worthwhile!

well, actually FYI, i am not originally from Australia, I was born in South Korea and i moved when i was a wee little lass, actually 10.

Can I just direct your attentions to the History of Middle Earth books which state fairly explicitly, that Tolkien intended Middle Earth to be England originally. Thanks.

Of course, that Makes Valinor New York, but there you go....

Hey, just remember a lot of water has flowed through the Mediteranean since those times--if you are going to place Middle-Earth on this old globe of ours--so the landscape has changed mightily since then.

Arda was initially flat and it became a globe only after the downfall of Numenor, "the seas were bent" and from then on no normal traveller could reach Valinor - when he went west, he only finished by coming home from the east! But Valinor is still accessible for those who can follow "the straight road". The ship leaves then the sea and travarses Ilmen (outer space) "which no mortal flesh can endure". So Valinor is perhaps on another planet now...