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⌈ Secret Post #3471 ⌋

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[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia]

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[Brooklyn Nine-Nine]

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[1931: Scheherazade at the Library of Pergamum]

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[outlander, ontd-sassenach]

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(Voltron: Legendary Defender)

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[Michael Kamen]

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[Captain America (MCU), Daredevil (MCU), Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, and Bleach]

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What about the landscape was wrong? Nothing really stuck out to me as off when it came to the landscape in those movies IIRC.

It looked too new, for a start. LOTR is during the third age of the sun, and there were ages of the trees and lamps before that. Everything is supposed to look old. That is one of the big running themes of the series: things get worse as time goes on. And especially the elvish cities because many the elves are fading or leaving and their cities are the oldest.

In addition to the above, the landscape looked too empty. When the Fellowship is making it's way south, they should be tripping over the ruins of past settlements. People have lived in Arnor, Gondor, and Rohan for longer than those kingdoms have existed. There have been a lot of battles and wars fought in those areas that drove people out but the remains of cities and towns and faded ruins should be there.

Basically, the burned out farmstead we see in the Hobbit and Weathertop are what everything should look like. There should be burned out towers and the occasional farmstead (with or without people) and lots of worn paths. Middle-earth is old and lived in. It should resemble Europe, not New Zealand.

They do walk past ruins.

Yes, but not nearly as many as they should (which is my point). The only ruins that are in the movies are the ones specifically called out in the book. There's huge tracks of the movie that are pristine wilderness. It wouldn't look like that.

Rohan looked like badlands rather than green plains for raising horses. The Shire looked as if someone had built it in an afternoon, rather than accreting over centuries. Rivendell looked like a rather naff garden centre.

SA The mountains were just right, though.

Have to disagree about the Shire. I thought it looked like a very well loved village.

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