Sunday, January 19, 2014

Edoras, Golden Hall of Theoden, King of Rohan...aka Mt. Sunday

Students of this blog know that our previous visit to New Zealand featured a number of Lord of the Rings sites. We are both LOTR fans. One of the sites we missed in 2009 was Edoras, the Golden Hall of Theoden, King of Rohan. We sort of missed that part of the South Island (as well as Christchurch), and, besides, Edoras, aka Mt. Sunday, was reputed to be hard to get to, remote, and on lousy roads. Well, it is a bit remote, but the roads were just fine, gravel the last 30k or so, but good, recently-graded gravel, and not much out of the way on our route to the big mountains.
Approaching Edoras, a roche moutonnee in a great outwash with the Southern
Alps in the background
















Now on the path leading to the little mountain















And there it is















Of course it looked different in The Two Towers










View of the Southern Alps from Edoras; background for the attack of the Wild
Men
















Another view from Edoras; the setting for Helm's Deep is
in the canyon in the center
















"Surely you wouldn't deprive an old man of his walking stick?"















Actually it was her walking stick















And as we're climbing back down, the LOTR tour bus arrives ($250 from
Christchurch, lunch included)
















Beautiful salmon stream nearby















Vicki on the one-person cable bridge across the stream





















Last look at Edoras



1 comment:

Rebecca said...

These are great! So glad you decided to go this time.