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

[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...