Third Age

"There are no clouds in Lorien, not during the day, nor during the night, no rain or fog but an ever present golden halo that turns the sky into molten gold. Such is the power of the Lady" 

Very few places I've seen with a sky as blue as I Drann, or the Shire as the periannath call it. It reflects their inhabitants way of life: bright, happy, without a care in the world. Even the clouds are brighter

It is a wonder how the sky can appear so different depending on where I am. The sky is one yet assumes so many colors, I can never know what I'll be looking at when I lift my gaze upwards. Here in Enedwaith, it seems gentle tones of rose gold dominate the late evening as the sun goes down, and the clouds like violet flowers

"It always amazes me how a still body of water can reflect the sky as if the most perfect mirror... just like today. Looking at it from the beach it truly felt like I could swim in a sea of clouds"

Once a harbour for last journeys, abandoned for a thousand years after Amroth's tragedy, thanks to a few Elves' care now Edhellond blooms with flowers as a new age dawns

I cannot stay still in one place too long. The wind takes me everywhere, even in the far reaches of this Middle Earth. I've been to the southern cape of Umbar once, where I was able to add more patterns to my chart of the currents and cumulonembi dominate the sky... although I prefer to call them cotton candy.... it's a better name and it fits!

I see the clouds in I Drann (or the Shire as locals call it) sky as happy wisps, much like its inhabitants, the Periannath. There is an overall sense of perennial joy whenever I travel through the land on my way West, and everytime I find myself with my nose up in the air, smiling at the sight of these wisps, especially at dawn when the golden hue makes way to light blue

(I Drann: Shire in sindarin)