Ring, ring, ring … Tolkien calling. Of course, I’m thinking of Lord of the Rings with this prompt. While out and about somewhere between Frankfurt and Wiesbaden I came about this incredible structure. The viewing tower in the regional park. Ragtag Daily Prompt: Ring
“From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
Definitely a renewed blade, look how shiny it is. Who is holding it, though? I have no idea. The sculpture is overlooking the Place of the Republic in Plsen, Czech Republic.
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I first came across the word moot when reading Lord of the Rings. An entmoot – if there should be anyone that doesn’t know – is a meeting of the ents, the shepherds of the forest, where they debate their important issues. I happen to live next to a forest which is called the Exotic Forest because some farsighted Earl in the mid 19th century started to plant trees from all over the world on a large scale.
Occasionally, I meet a tree which might have been an ent and grown silent only in recent years.
Isn’t that Treebark looking down on me?
A relative of Quickbeam, possibly.
This looks like a young enting to me.
I know that the ents have lost the entwives but maybe I have spotted one recently.
And this screaming, disrespectful ent looks like he is disrupting the entire moot.
The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Moot
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
JRR Tolkien
More photos inspired by the LotR quote can be found linked to Travel with Intent.
Many wine growing regions in Germany (and I guess elsewhere as well) organise a “Weinwanderung” – a walk of several hours through the vinyards with many stops along the way offering wine tastings and food stalls. These events have been growing in popularity and there are usually thousands of people on the way.
Most of these “wine walks” are during summer before the grapes are ripe or after the harvest in autumn but some are also organised in winter.
Cold weather doesn’t seem to deter anyone.
And nobody is forced to do the whole length – there are buses who collect those who’ve had enough of walking or of wine. So nobody gets lost.
“He who is outside his door already has the hardest part of his journey behind him.”
– Dutch proverb
And my bookshelves would look differently if I didn’t include a Tolkien quote here:
“You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
Another photo display inspired by Travel with Intent‘s quoted saying. More inspirational results can be found here.
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