Kevin's Watch

I was sad to learn, after doing a search of all 8 pages in this forum, that there is no topic with the word mountain in it. Can we think of nothing to say about the manifestation of Earth that was the birthplace of the Haruchai and the Earthblood? I don't have it in the player at the moment, but in Jeremiah Johnson, one character says something like the Rockies are the marrow of the world. I absolutely love MOUNTAINS

"You are a strange one, Christian."

Welcome.

Coming from an area of the world (northern Nevada) where you can't look at any horizon and not see a mountain, I too am rather fond of those great, craggy masses of land.

Skyweir and Rivenrock! The awesome Westrons! The Northron Climbs! The Rockies rule! (I think it's the air up here Syl... )

Guards Gap is in the mountains. Probably helped the Haruchai train so well and become so disciplined.

The mountains where I live ....well, you can't really call them mountains; they are more like giant hills.

I am so envious of you Syl, to have had spectacular scenery like that close at hand. What a privilege!

At present I'm reading Ch23 of TIW and I came across this passage regarding Melenkurion Skyweir.

Covenant caught his first glimpse of Melenkurion Skyweir. Though it was still many leagues almost due southeast of him, the high mountain lifted its twin, icebound peaks above the range's rugged horizon, and its glaciers gleamed blue in the sunlight as if the sky's azure feet were planted there.

Oh, what I would give to see that kind of majesty for real!

Is there any need for the Haruchai to chime in here? Guess how we feel about mountains!!

(And btw, is it just me, or is that a wonderful first post!! I haven't seen its like since... what... maybe Taiga's? )

han-shan, is your signature from the charles frazier book?

Never heard of Charles Frazier. It's a poem by a T'ang poet named *ahem* Han-shan, translated by Burton Watson. The full poem won't quite fit into the sig, but here it is:

I climb the road to Cold Mountain,
The road to Cold Mountain that never ends.
The valleys are long and strewn with stones;
The streams broad and banked with thick grass.
Moss is slippery, though no rain has fallen;
Pines sigh, but it isn't the wind.
Who can break from the snares of the world
And sit with me among the white clouds?

oh ok, thats really cool. charles frazier wrote a book not too long ago called Cold Mountain. it was about a civil war soldier who was returning to his home on Cold Mountain in North Carolina

Oh yeah, I've heard of that book. I'm sure I just read somewhere that it's being made into a movie. I want to read the book, just because of the title. Han-shan means Cold Mountain. Many Zen masters of ancient China were referred to by the name of the area they lived.

If you ever get a hold of a 1st ed. print of that book, get it. It's very rare and worth some good $$, yet the chances of finding it at a garage sell and such are decent.

its good to meet a fellow mountain!!

i'd be very interested to know where you got your mountain avatar Cold Mountain .. not that i have really searched ..

LOL Fellow mountain

Hail, brother Mountain! You can find any number of pictures of that theme by googling *cold mountain* Though you will probably have to shrink whatever you find.

Mine, of course, is a picture of the actual Cold Mountain, which is in the northernmost reaches of the Westron Mountains. SRD never had reason to write about it, but there it is.

Mountains are a foreign concept to a person from a state whose inhabitants are called "flatlanders" by their neighbors to the north.

lol

Here's another view of my mountain range.

very cool and breath-takingly beautiful