The chapters in Lothlorien are beautiful. Tolkein describes it in such a wonderful way.

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Tolkein describes everything in such a wonderful way!

Lothlorien is one of my favourite places in ME. It just seems so peaceful and a beautiful place to live.

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Lothlorien strikes me as being a very peaceful, quiet, and happy place, not to mention beautiful. It seems like a place where all the troubles of your wearied mind. I would love to live there, but travel elsewhere, also.

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Lothlorien is one of the most beautiful places in middle-earth. I´m a great fan of this chapter because it shows the strength and power of the elves which reaches it´s climax in the character of galadriel. I liked the part when Gimli asked her for three strands of her hair. That was such a nice and sweet gesture!

I love the whole book! yes, but Lothlorien is one of my favourite chapters of the book!

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Lothlorien has always fascinated me. It has a certain majestic mysteriousness about it. It's eerily beautiful, if that makes any sense. I love the mallorn trees. I love trees in general, but the way Tolkien describes these, I picture them as being so breath takingly beautiful.
It's just an awesome place.

Imagine having a Mallorn Tree on your property. What an amazing site to behold. Lothlorien is what I would think heaven would be like.

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"I am Anduril, who was Narsil, let the thralls of Mordor fear me".
Translation of the blade.

Lothlórien is the closest thing to a paradise in Middle-earth. It's an enchanted, magical and peaceful place. Time stands still there, the place isn't influenced by the changing seasons and the elves are eternal.
The Fellowship escapes from Moria, where they fought hard and lost their beloved leader and guide, they are tired and weary in body and mind - and so are the readers who suffer with them. Lothlórien becomes the sacred refuge that heals all the hurts and gives the fellowship renewed hope and strength. And for the readers it also becomes a light in the dark, a chapter where we can for take a deep breath again and have a break from the suspense Tolkien has put us to since the chapters in Rivendell.

Lothlórien appears like more of a sanctuary than Rivendell, also more people seem to favour Lothlórien over Rivendell. Basically I see the books as one long and dark journey with a few light houses on the way. We start out in the Shire, then encounters the thread from the Old Forest, but we find a refuge at Tom Bombadil's house, following there is the chase of the Ringwraiths, but the next light house is Rivendell, the follows the tiresome road through the Mines of Moria and eventually they reach "heaven" on Middle-earth, Lothlórien.

I think Tolkien wanted the .. what I call light houses, to equal the hardships on the different stages of the journey. It just gets a little worse by every step the Fellowship takes... and eventualy they suffer the greatest loss; loosing Gandalf. That hurt could not be mended and healed in the House of Tom Bombadil nor in Rivendell as good as in the over-earthly and divine peace that is omni-present in Lothlórien.

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Good post, Eä! So basically what you're saying is: Lotloriën is ment to be the most beautifull setting on purpose? That sort of makes sense yes.

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Ea, you've done it again. A truly remarkable and accurate post! You always manage to find the words for things I want to say but can't find the words for.
The idea about "light houses" is beautiful. And I guess if you think about it in that manner, Lothlorien is like Heaven in Middle Earth. It was the place that the fellowship came to after they had endured their greatest hardship yet.
I wonder......... if lothlorien was Heaven on Middle Earth, what would that make Galadriel? I suppose she could just be called the keeper of the greastes light house.
Thank goodness Tolkien gave us spots like those where the characters could rest fomr their perilous journey. Even as a reader, you get so caught up in the story that you are expieriencing everything with the characters, so when they do reach a safe point you feel relieved and like you can finally rest for awhile.
That's one thing that I missed in the movies. The movies actually exhuasted me after Iwacthed them becausr they were such a roller coaster of emotions. There was no Tom Bombadil at the beginning to feel safe at. Bree does nothig but increase our sense of suspense and dread. Even Rivendell seems more about working to decide the fate of the Ring then resting, as they left out the scene with the Hall of Fire. And Lothlorien they seemed to want to make scary in th movies. So most of the places they stopped to rest didn't seem very restful, in the films. I guess the lgith houses weren't shining too brightly.
The book were different though. I think the lgithouses shone just fine in them.

I love the nature of Lothlorien also. And the trees with golden leaves!! Absolutely fantastic. and when I watched fotr for the first time, I was like, there's something mischievous about her (Galadriel), is she on the good or bad side..? and I was afraid of her after the part she turns all green and her voice goes.. well you know the part. (notice: I was 10 yrs old when I watched it for the first time.. little me.) but actually now I love Lothlorien and the scene - and Galadriel

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Guhhhhhhhhhhhh Such an awesome post, yet again, Eä. Very explanatory. I agree with everything.

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*smiles* Thank you all. I didn't even know this was what I was going to write down on Lothlórien, it just happened to word itself...

Eyalan I think Tolkien wanted Lothlórien to be an over-earthly place resembling the beauty of The Undying Lands, which he made his real Heaven. But actually I don't like using religious terms or references about Tolkien's work. We all know he was Catholic and how it might have influenced his writing, but he was also inspired by various mythologies and cultures and he mixes everything into something new.

Tinuviel's Tears I call them light houses for want of a better word and to illustrate my point. Tolkien names Galadriel the Lady of Light, I guess that could do for us as well!
I agree, the movies were a rollercoaster the first time I watched them, it was action upon action and suspense and tension and I felt like I didn't breathe at all during the movie. I relaxed and enjoyed them a lot more the following times... tghe little details and the references to the books!

Elwing_Star_Spray Thank you and welcome back!

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Makes sense. I agree.

You're welcome,and thank-you!

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Lothlorien is one of my favorite spots also...