TXnMA
Posted on 03/11/2019 1:34:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
We’ve got that: ;^)
The Longyou caves [China, 1st-2nd c AD]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3708958/posts
underground cities in Anatolia:
http://www.google.com/search?q=robert+schoch+underground+city+anatolia
Sorry, didn’t know. lol Cool stuff there now...
TXnMA
I think that one turned up in a search for something else, too. ;^) It shows two things, one, how transient, really, populations are and, two, that local folklore is often not very deeply rooted.
It would be neat to excavate the busted-down parts, or part of those parts.
“Speak ‘friend’ and enter.”
"Mellon!"
I recognized it immediately, and then [french horns] added a line from the same part of "Fellowship of the Ring". Gandalf had given up, everything was silent for a time, then he started laughing, realizing the translation of Narvi's words were not "Speak, friend, and enter" but "SAY 'friend' and enter". So the word he spoke was "mellon", Elvish for "friend". As a teen, I read and re-read LOTR, but often would just reread the whole part about the Mines of Moria. That stood me in good stead for the dungeons and dragons era in the 1970s. ;^)
ah, here we go, and the graphic appears to be a scan of Tolkien’s own original. He sure loved that imaginary world. It’s even referenced on his gravestone, Luthien and Beren.
http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Doors_of_Durin
http://tolkiengateway.net/w/images/e/ea/J.R.R._Tolkien_-_Doors_of_Durin.jpg
one of many pages with pics of the grave:
http://www.thelandofshadow.com/tolkien-week-a-visit-to-professor-tolkiens-grave-site/
Awesome.
I'm surprised none of these have been opened as hotels (bathroom down the hall, Euro-style).
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