Lothlorien

“There lie the woods of Lothlorien!” said Legolas. “That is the fairest of all the dwellings of my people. There are no trees like the trees of that land. For in the autumn their leaves fall not, but turn to gold.”

J.R.R. Tolkein, “The Fellowship of the Ring”

This is one of the roads I love to visit here locally.

At just the right time of year, there are a few golden days during which, if you look down the road to where it starts to bend, you can’t be sure whether or not the pavement has turned to packed dirt and becomes the entrance to the lands of which Tolkien wrote so elegantly.

Is it?

I’ll never tell.

5 Comments

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  By kimberly roush, October 28, 2009 @ 9:07 am

  Of course it is!!

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  By Dan, November 5, 2009 @ 7:15 pm

  It’s beautiful – what road is that?

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  By JAS, November 5, 2009 @ 7:39 pm

  Dan, it’s the exit road from the camping grounds, as you’re heading towards the horse parking and bridle paths, at High Cliff. There were a bazillion or so black squirrels up in the picnic grounds by the Tower, too!

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  By Elyse, November 12, 2009 @ 8:18 pm

  Gorgeous, simply gorgeous….

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  By Moo, November 30, 2009 @ 1:30 pm

  Oh my. I’m sure Galadriel, Arwen, Legolas are just beyond the gold. What a beauty you discovered here. Shhhh!

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