It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door…You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.
Gondolin Beautiful Strike this
Beorn's Farmstead Living wall.
Give me a bit more on the third and confirm the ones above. Please.
Changing Gondolin which is not strictly in Middle Earth as I understand it to:
Caras Galadon,
this was the only city in Lothlorien and, according to Karen Fostad, was fortified but the wall was green so possibly it was earthen. The wall was surrounded but a moat of sorts but one without water.
Still looking for the others.
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Lothlorien's Caras Galadon is correct Airwin and I believe it had two walls because I seem to remember mention of an inner gate. Beorn's thorn-hedge wall is also correct elizabeth. The evil fortress that I had in mind is a major site in LOTR.
For the third Evil place I am guessing Cirith Ungol.
So Evil Places:
Orthanc
Mordor
Cirith Ungol
Good Places:
Edoras
Helm's Deep
Minas Tirith
Caras Galadon
Beorn's Farmstead
Bree.
Note: Cross posted with Airwin.
I waffled about Minas Morgol as the final evil place and, I presume, it is also walled but, Cirith Ungol where Shelob lives is a walled and gated tower guarded by the Watchers and it figures more prominently in the LoTR.
At the start of the adventure Gandalf gave the party a map and something else, what was it? Who figured out how to use it and how did they figure it out?
I'll start it off, Gandalf almost forgot to give the company a small but curious key.
I read the Hobbit after the other novels and I remember this well when Gandalf passed the key on he said, "Keep it safe." which made the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
I see there is a stand still so I'll finish the answer.
Yes it was used. While Bilbo waited on the side of the Lonely Mountain for the company very near sunset, he was given a hint by a thrush. Crack, crack!
He jumps up in serprise as the sun is setting calling out to the company to come. As the sun goes down the company waits...and with the last ray of the sun Bilbo yells for the key which Thorin is carrying. At the last possible moment the key is inserted and snap!
After days of poking and prodding and trying everything that the party could think of, and after much grousing from the dwarves about the uselessness of a certain burgler, Bilbo had this inspiration. It reminded me of the scene played out at the doors of Moria.
Need a hint? If you look in the indexes of the Silmarillian and LotR you'll find his name mentioned several times. I can also tell you he is very, very old.
Beautiful Strike this
The Tower of Cirith Ungol?
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