Rohan + Photoshop = Utah

[tealin]

I've been getting back into the Lord of the Rings swing lately and was watching Two Towers tonight ... Rohan* is one of a very few things that can make me feel homesick for Utah, though that doesn't last very long because Rohan only looks like the Utah in my head and I soon remember that the actual place is full of strip malls, subdivisions, casseroles, asphalt, and sociological textbook examples, which rather kills the nostalgia. Anyway, a whim struck me tonight, and after way too much trawling of the Intarweb, I managed to scrape this together:



Surely Saruman wields no more dreadful power than the evil of Photoshop.

*Or rather, whatever part of New Zealand that is...

Comments

[manikaitwing.livejournal.com]

*stares at that for a while*

o.o

wow. That's almost scary. XD

[azvolrien.livejournal.com]

Is Utah greener toward the north? I've only ever visited the south, around Lake Powell.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

It goes from redrock desert to semiarid steppe ... depends if you count sagebrush as 'green.' People plant trees and water them, I guess that's kind of green... and the grass is green in the spring before it turns yellow in June.

[pressrecord.livejournal.com]

classic!

[durayan.livejournal.com]

I've got a very good friend who lives in Utah, and on visits, we've gone out to Roosevelt- right on the edge of mountains and desert and the colors out there are just incredible!

But, yeah, Salt Lake is like the suburbia capital of the free world.

[adalanne.livejournal.com]

*lol* Ah, home sweet home. That's awesome.

I do miss it, but mainly for friends, family, and the places where Utah does really look like it should be in another world. I miss the mountains so; New Yorkers don't know what real mountains look like.

[(Anonymous)]

the actual place is full of strip malls, subdivisions, casseroles, asphalt, and sociological textbook examples

Lol... sadly, sadly true... and I'm going to school here... But, the amazing Brett Helquist might actually be teaching here next year, so there are some perks.

Wow... the really sad thing though is that it took me a really long time to actually notice what you had photoshopped into the background (i.e. after I had stared this comment). I'de like to say that I was focusing only on the figure. Either your'e really, really good at photoshop or I have lived here just a little too long...

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

BRETT HELQUIST TEACHING?!?? AAAAAAH!

[simibee.livejournal.com]

yeah... He's one of three finalists for a full-time faculty position that's opening up in illustration... I have my fingers crossed, but more than likely it will be one of the others, because Mr. Helquist isn't quite sure he actually wants it even though he applied... Which is totally understandable- I don't understand why he would even apply in the first place...

[tony-cliff.livejournal.com]

nicely done!

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

[bows] Thankee.

[tropicalwater07.livejournal.com]

Wow. It's ridiculous how accurate that is.

[lizetm.livejournal.com]

Never been to Utah, but I do have family who used to live there. They said its quite nice, and a lot more quite than California. XD

lol! This is quite funny, and actually very well done, so great job!

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's quiet all right ... Quiet in an Innsmouth kind of way.

[diminutivefox.livejournal.com]

Thats a spectacular job, no...really...the amount of times I've seen those films verges over the obsessive mark and it still took me a while to notice all the photoshopped bits!

[seripanther.livejournal.com]

From my vantage point here in Provo, I can safely say that Utah misses you, too.

Although Provo doesn't look much like Rohan. I know places that do, though . . .

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

(reposted for forgetting HTML)

No, Utah doesn't miss me. It never liked me when I was living there, it doesn't like me when I visit, and I can't imagine it wanting me back.

Are you kidding? Mt Timpanogos is the most Rohan-y mountain on the Wasatch Front! Here, I've whipped up a little diagram for you with my amazing Wacom skills:



The mountain the other side of Utah Lake is the one you can see in the picture here (http://familylifeinternship.byu.edu/Internship%20Search/Local%20Internships.dhtml), though that's not the most flattering angle. And here, drop in a couple thousand uniform subdivisions with lawns, trampolines, and globe willows, and this is immediately recognizable as Utah Valley:


One of these days I'll post the Rohan-y pictures I took out on the other side of Utah Lake, past Saratoga Springs, where the sagebrush is almost tall enough to hide the city...

[seripanther.livejournal.com]

There's this tiny range called the Fish Lake Mountains somewhere down south (I was kind of asleep when we were getting there) that is the true and absolute incarnation of Mordor. I should really hunt down a picture. It's this massive black wall of rock in the middle of nowhere. So maybe, if we work at it, we can fit the entirety of Middle-Earth into Utah someplace . . .

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Dunno anywhere that looks remotely like the Shire...

[puffbird.livejournal.com]

Cache Valley, maybe? Especially the southernmost part, near Eden...

[tannhaeuser.livejournal.com]

picture request idea thingie...not sure where in your journal to put this.

[lady-jahar.livejournal.com]

I've had these images in my head for ages, that due to being a queen of stick figures I can never draw. I was lookign through your stuff and thought you might like to take a shot.

The First one is The night Remus almost bites Snape, of him asleep in hte Hospital Wing, with James looking haunted watching him, Sirius maybe in the doorway watching them. NOt sure onhis expression if so.

The second is Snape maybe twenty one or so, coming to Dumbledore to turn himself in. I can see him maybe kneeling left arm out and Whoever is in the office wit Dumbledore starign at him in horror. Remus and James maybe. Robes possibly bloodstained. Anyhow, thought I'd toss out my ideas, if your, or someone else is willing to take a shot at it please leave me a message on my LJ account. Thanks for taking the time to read this. I'll post a copy ofhte ideas on the account.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Actually the place on the journal to put this is ... in an email. This is an email sort of thing. I will, um ... put this in the folder marked 'Snape suggestions,' shall I?

[inkemu.livejournal.com]

Can I ask you something totally unrelated to this particular entry? (Don't answer if you don't have the time or what all) -

I'm going to be graduating high school next year, and I really want to become an animator. But many people I've talked to, including a lot of artists, have said that going to art school is a bad idea. Instead, they say I should get a liberal arts education and go on to art school afterwards.

Since you're an animator, I wondered what your thought on this would be. Is art school worth sacrificing more of the liberal arts component?

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

What's with the email-ific posts today? My email's in the userinfo ... send this there and I'll answer.

[inkemu.livejournal.com]

Thanks, will do!

[puffbird.livejournal.com]

Yes. So totally yes.

[thefordmustang.livejournal.com]

That is a funny image! I think it is a pretty good comment on most parts of the USA the way the McMansion development is coming along. I remember the first time I saw Utah how the development took me by surprise. I had not been expecting it.

I am trying to remember the name of that part of New Zealand on South Island. Mt. Potts Station, maybe?

Thanks for the laugh and the nice Photoshop job.

Utah

[(Anonymous)]

Just couldn't help myself in commenting at your description of Utah. Unfortunately, I'm stuck here and that is the best way I've ever heard it described. So I'm just saying, my sentiments exactly.

Re: Utah

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Not forever, surely?