tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738174603029644797.post555723108028839986..comments2024-03-22T15:53:38.589-07:00Comments on Kate of Mind: Puttin' the Blog in Balrog: My Own Private Middle EarthKate Sherrodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08706419613939420574noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738174603029644797.post-60396370585321504942021-08-17T17:54:16.501-07:002021-08-17T17:54:16.501-07:00Kate! How have you been?? Sorry to reach you on ...Kate! How have you been?? Sorry to reach you on here as I do not have your number. Hope you are well! Thought of you and figured I would check in with you in your part of the state.-DaveAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12690951718938217303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738174603029644797.post-54420535562943785042012-07-20T14:18:32.595-07:002012-07-20T14:18:32.595-07:00And as a total nerd, I tried to read LOTR in Icela...And as a total nerd, I tried to read LOTR in Icelandic. Got through FOTR, but it took me so long I realized I should move back to the literature I was in the country to study :) Still interesting to compare the translation to the original -- it was very good.David Jón Fullerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13214464940911202724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738174603029644797.post-38250486740336984742012-07-20T14:11:45.074-07:002012-07-20T14:11:45.074-07:00Sigh. There you go again with your Iceland-flaunti...Sigh. There you go again with your Iceland-flaunting. Le sigh. I've seen photos of what you're talking about though, and YES The Grinding Ice!!!!Kate Sherrodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08706419613939420574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738174603029644797.post-63785064707288259622012-07-20T14:09:47.741-07:002012-07-20T14:09:47.741-07:00I didn't have mountains anywhere near where I ...I didn't have mountains anywhere near where I grew up, though I did spend a lot of time in the Canadian Shield, and the rocky, forested terrain, I think, has always landscaped my imagining of the flight from Bree, and also when the fellowship leaves Lothlorien.<br />Many years later, while touring glaciers in Iceland, such as Myrdalsjökull, with a fellow Tolkien fan, as it happened, we both thought the wretched, jagged landscape of ice was straight out of the Silmarillion: "The Grinding Ice!" we both said, thinking of the Elves' torturous journe y to Middle-earth.David Jón Fullerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13214464940911202724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738174603029644797.post-88585461312267575552012-07-14T14:34:21.443-07:002012-07-14T14:34:21.443-07:00Come visit! I'm sure we can dig up a Ring to d...Come visit! I'm sure we can dig up a Ring to destroy!Kate Sherrodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08706419613939420574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738174603029644797.post-81873927494674739052012-07-14T14:02:12.065-07:002012-07-14T14:02:12.065-07:00No sites where I grew up, beautiful country up the...No sites where I grew up, beautiful country up there!Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08978672202726885286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738174603029644797.post-47526317360942393792012-07-13T17:50:50.792-07:002012-07-13T17:50:50.792-07:00Those are fabulous and totally appropriate! I wond...Those are fabulous and totally appropriate! I wonder if there weren't lots of young readers in the Rocky Mtn region for whom Middle Earth looks a lot like these 8)Kate Sherrodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08706419613939420574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738174603029644797.post-61850097191228940172012-07-13T09:52:08.334-07:002012-07-13T09:52:08.334-07:00Man, I tried to comment on this last night, but fo...Man, I tried to comment on this last night, but for some reason my blogger account WON'T STAY LOGGED IN!<br /><br />Anyway, I think this is glorious, the way you pictured it. <br /><br />I grew up in NW Montana and Idaho, so I associated everything with the Cabinets (the mountain range I lived under) and Lake Pend Orielle:<br /><br />http://www.colorado.edu/geography/class_homepages/geog_1011_s08/index_files/image021.jpg<br /><br />http://www.nwicon.com/cliff-lake-saint-paul-peak-cabinet-mountains.jpg<br /><br />http://www.sandpointonline.com/sandpointmag/sms05/images/pend_oreille.jpgessjayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08117046454917324592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738174603029644797.post-3346346039856914712012-07-12T15:57:02.379-07:002012-07-12T15:57:02.379-07:00I appreciate that, dear Walter! I always thought I...I appreciate that, dear Walter! I always thought I might spy one in Hell's Half Acre somewhere when I was wee, but they proved too elusive for little ol' me!Kate Sherrodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08706419613939420574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738174603029644797.post-80221307739108029652012-07-12T15:40:03.016-07:002012-07-12T15:40:03.016-07:00The Red desert has some very LOTR places. Adobe To...The Red desert has some very LOTR places. Adobe Town and the Jack Morrow Hills are especially rich. Then there is Crow Heart Butte east of Riverton. I don't know how it fits into the books, but it must, somehow.<br /><br />We have some sleeping dragons a bit southwest of Casper. I have tried and tried to photograph them so to show on paper what is very evident to the living eye, but to no avail. When I do succeed, you'll be among the first to know.Walter Hawnnoreply@blogger.com