Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.
Hello lovelies! I hope this week has been treating you well so far. It’s been a kind of reflective week for me due to some bad news I received last Monday, so I am actually quite glad that this week’s TTT topic is one that was perfect to think of. I think reading is such a beautiful thing because it allows us to escape the stuff in our lives at times to other worlds and places where we temporarily live other people’s lives and see how they struggle and triumph through what’s thrown at them.
In trying to honour the vast diversity of genres I read, I have picked a number of real places, real-ish societies, and completely fantastical places I would love to escape to for a while right now.
Fantasy locations I wish I could transport to
1. The Shire/Rivendell (The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien)
This has always been my number one place when I want to escape out of my own stress. Just put on the soundtrack, close my eyes and dream of peaceful rolling green hills and leaning against a tree trunk watching Hobbits doing their thing.
Or seeing the glory of the Elvish halls as the sun hits its spires in all the right places, and running into this peaceful abode to spend the rest of my days. What more could I ask for?
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