Has anybody read this?

For all of the Talk that doesn't fit elsewhere.

Moderators: caedmon, Greg

Post Reply
User avatar
Ursus
Amrod Rhandir
Posts: 538
Joined: Sat Jun 22, 2013 11:31 pm
Location: Illinois

Has anybody read this?

Post by Ursus »

I’m considering picking up this gem, anybody else read it?

[https://www.amazon.com/Flora-Middle-Ear ... ref=plSrch
"Lonely men are we, Rangers of the wild, hunters – but hunters ever of the servants of the Enemy."

“My cuts, short or long, don’t go wrong.”
User avatar
Elleth
êphal ki-*raznahê
Posts: 2932
Joined: Wed Nov 03, 2010 5:26 am
Location: in the Angle; New England

Re: Has anybody read this?

Post by Elleth »

Someone here was highly recommending it... Harper I think? No - Straelbora -

http://middleearthrangers.org/forum/vie ... 554#p40554

I've been meaning to get a copy, but simply haven't had room in my discretionary budget yet. Sometime I hope. :)
Persona: Aerlinneth, Dúnedain of Amon Lendel c. TA 3010.
User avatar
Greg
Urush bithî 'nKi ya-nam bawâb
Posts: 4496
Joined: Tue Dec 02, 2008 8:50 pm
Location: Eriador; Central Indiana

Re: Has anybody read this?

Post by Greg »

That's the one I keep forgetting to pick up!

Just snagged a copy of Kullervo, which I expect to be fun and disappointing all at once (because there's no ending)...but the flora keeps escaping me.
Now the sword shall come from under the cloak.
User avatar
Harper
Haeropada
Posts: 793
Joined: Thu Dec 31, 2015 7:11 pm

Re: Has anybody read this?

Post by Harper »

I recall writing on another forum that it was coming out but that it was expensive. I didn't buy it then because of the cost.

But now that the price has come down...
Straelbora
Haeropada
Posts: 937
Joined: Mon Feb 11, 2013 7:00 pm
Location: Indianapolis, IN USA

Re: Has anybody read this?

Post by Straelbora »

It was me highly recommending it.

It's a father and son team. Dad is a botanist, son is an artist. The illustrations are woodcuts (or in that style), reminiscent of Tolkien's art style. The information is straight on Botany 101 for Middle-earth. You not only get a listing of every plant mentioned in the Legendarium, but a scientific break down of the plant, its uses, etc. And it shows more of Tolkien's genius, because he not only mapped Middle-earth, but apparently put the right kind of biomes in the right places, populated by all the right plants.
Vápnum sínum skala maðr velli á
feti ganga framar því at óvist er at vita
nær verðr á vegum úti geirs um þörf guma
Hávamál
Post Reply