Tolkien’s landscape descriptions

Context: I was gifted a box set of LOTR + Hobbit for my 10th birthday (shout out David Burton. What a great friend!) I think I was the perfect age, and LOTR just blew my mind. Since then I’ve re-read god knows how many times. At least 30, maybe more (I’m now 58). On a current re-read and just marveling over Tolkien’s language in Three’s Company as Frodo sets out from Hobbiton. So much more to come in the books, but for me he brings you completely inside this journey with his descriptions of the landscape as the hobbits move through it. I know that’s not some galaxy brain insight, but my gosh his writing is so good.

Posted Dec 3, 2025, 1:51 AM UTC

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