Simple question, if you would live in Middle-Earth, where would you live, or where would you want to live? what kind of creature would you want to be? and what would be your daily business?

Mine is as followes:

I would live among the race of men, In Eriador, the North Kingdom or Arnor, near chetwood and bree, I would be a hunter, living in a small community. We would work the land, trade with the people from evendim, bree, and hobbits from hobbiton. I would travel to rivendell, misty mountains, lake evendim, and sometimes when we couldn't find food anywhere and we would be in the most dire need of it, and our crops would have failed, we would hunt in the old forrest.. We would trade pipeweed with the hobbits and wooden furniture with the people from bree, juwelery with the elves from rivendell...
Travelling would be easy beacause the great east road is easy to travell by Horse.. which ofcourse would be dark brown..

main weapon would be a bow, made by the elves.. If we travel we would travel cloaked and hooded.. but always in peace with other creatures and people..

Would love to see some more fantasies!!

Nice Huan . I'm glad you posted the map. I'm hoping more people with a better handle on the tech than me will post imagery on the forum.

Well, I suppose I would love to live in the Shire myself--enjoying the sedentary life. Though Rivendell would be pretty sweet too. I think I would probably be a Hobbit Wizard (if such a thing were possible ). I would grow *ahem* Pipe-Weed of a sticky green variety and Magic Mushrooms for use in...erm...magic. I would travel and visit with Elves and other Wizards discussing Magic and Philosophy over big bowls of Pipe-Weed .

Gandalf's Beard

I can't imagine many places in Middle Earth I'd like to live. No computers- I couldn't write or play games or waste my time on internet chat boards.
It'd be cool to be an elf, but with my luck I'd probably end up as a goblin or a neekerbreek or something.

That's why I would have to be a Wizard Barrel . But like I said, I would probably be a Hobbity version of a Jack Black half-ass Wizard . But think of all the cool entertainments you could come up with if you were a Wizard .

Gandalf's Beard

haha Barrel,

Imagine you would live in Osgiliath, and you would want to send us a message in Arnor, you'd probably find yourself a fast horse, get yourself a messenger.. and write us a letter..

And then, while Gandalfs Beard (I dearly hope you'll come up with a better hobbit name ^^) and me are smoking some of the best pipe weed from the South Farthing, enjoying us some freshly baked pie from the bakery in Michel Delving, the messenger comes ridding up our road. Wishes us a Good Day, for a good day it is... And while we offer him some tea and pie, we would read your letter...

Now, how would that be? better then sitting behind your computer in the office or at home

btw gandalf a hobbit wizzard??.. haha that would be.. yeah.. original?

I'll have to think up a a Hobbity name. But as Gandalf's protege Gandalf's Beard could still be my nickname (always hiding under his beard).

Gandalf looks around. "Where is that darn Hobbit? It's time for his transfiguration lessons." I peek out from under his beard "Ha ha, here I am Gandalf."

Your fantasy scenario made me think though. I've always wondered what Asia looked like in the third age. We only get to see Europe and the mediterannean region on the map of Middle Earth. How cool would it be to be the Marco Polos of Eriador . We could bring back new varieties of Pipe-Weed, learn new languages and converse with Oriental Wizards, make new maps...

Gandalf's Beard

I've always wanted to know what lay beyond the map to the East. I think that if I lived in Middle-earth, I'd go and explore all those awesome and far-reaching places.

and what bout going to the other way? beyond the sea.. "white beaches and green land as far as the eye can reach" doens't that sounds interesting? but be real, I would first want to explore ME, before going beyond its borders..

But gandalf.. you'd realy think there's any business in introducing new pipeweed? You know all hobbits don't like strange things.. especially not from a wizzards apprantice!! queer folk I say you! hehe

By the way, is there any mentioning from tolkien what lays beyond the borders of ME? or is that just it? the 'world' surrounded by seas?

Well Tolkien always saw Middle-Earth as our own mythic past. So there should be the equivalent of all the present continents on Tolkien's world.

This leads me to think that that the land the Elves came from beyond the Western Sea would relate to Avalon or Atlantis. In other words one could probably only get there through some kind of magical or dimensional portal as it would be unlikely that the Elves came from the Americas. Perhaps Tolkien had some idea that the Elves came from a "real" lost Continent in the middle of the Atlantic or perhaps as I suggested from another plane of our reality.

As to "new" Pipeweeds, I think the Hobbits actually enjoy trying new things to eat and smoke (just as the English like their curries). I also think they enjoy stories about adventures, they just enjoy the comforts of home too much to have them themselves.

Gandalf's Beard