[Mithfânion]

What are your most memorable scenes from all the Fantasy books you've read? I'd like to know about places, the images that an author gave you, some remarkable architecture, or perhaps simply a beautiful port filled with ships and people on the docks, or images of certain landscapes like enormous mountains or something like the Pillars of Argonath. Or maybe just the feel of a certain forest?

[Alle]

There are way too many, so I'll settle with the first that pops into my mind. In the prologue of GGK's Tigana, 2 characters, (the King and his friend I do believe) look back on their past long friendship while waiting for morning and a battle that they know they will lose. Its very poignant and moving.

Alle

[Jon Shannow]

In Waylander when he comes back to help the priest. There he is dark cloak pulled up tight about him at the egde of the light from the fire.

Sorry on reading your post more carefully I see you wan't a landscape or city scene The Waylander bit just poped int my head when I read the title.

I think the most memorable image in the sense you mean has got to be Terry Pratchetts Disc world can't you just see it

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A Brass note sounds. It is a deep, vibrating chord that hints that the brass section may break in at any moment with a fanfare for the cosmos, because the scene is the blackness of deep space with a few stars glittering like the dandruff on the shoulders of God.

Then it comes into view overhead, bigger than the biggest, most unpleasantly-armed starcruiser in the imagination of a three-ring film-maker: a turtle, ten thousand miles long. It is Great A'Tuin, one of the rare astrchlonians from a universe where things are less as they are and more like people imagine them to be, and it carries on its meteor -pocked shell four giant elephants who bear on their enormous shoulders the great round wheel of the Discworld.
Terry Pratchetts Equal Rites

[Alle]

oops...I guess I didn't read the original post too well...sorry! :)

[Crysania]

Fun thread... there ARE too many...

er... some that pop in my head....

1) Asu'a in Tad William's Memory, Sorrow, Thorn - such a beautifully descripted place -- hauntingly so... the image of the place with ghosts running in terror through it screaming... just gives me chills.. Also the Sithi riding... there's a painting called the Riding of the Sidhe. It's on my wall...

2) GRRM's "Clash of Kings" when Arya is practicing with a wooden stick up in the trees and her shadow - large, menacing - reflects on the ground of the dark garden. Just gorgeous imagery that's stayed in my head.

3) Covenant with the Ranyhyn - both in Book 1 and Book 3
Covenant with the Wraiths in Book 1.

4) Susan cooper's Dark is Rising -- the climax of Silver On The tree with the boat and the sleepers and the king etc. And also in the Grey King with Cader Idris (where I've been) and the echoing of 'Gwen's voice cross a mountain side...

5) In Coldfire when Tarrant finds his 'gift' in the wood... his hunt at the end of book 1 -- the forest seemed strangely gorgeous and tangible in that terrifying description

6) Lothlorien as described in the BOOKS - not in washed out blue tinge like the fool film

I could go on... I'll add some later thanks to the nice edit function

[Cadfael]

3) Covenant with the Ranyhyn - both in Book 1 and Book 3
Covenant with the Wraiths in Book 1.


Yes.. I agree...

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I also felt a tingle go down my back when Covenant said the word 'Nom' during the clensing of Ravelstone in the 2nd Chronicles... I just never expected that!!!!

[sunback]

the first description of the vale inthe belgarion really impressed me

[manticore]

when frodo claims the ring for himself, and gollum attacks him...

[ezchaos]

There are many, but one that I can think of right off (I know it may be cliche') is the balrog/gandalf scene in FotR. I doubly like it now because I thought the scene was done justice in the movie.

I also loved the weird, decaying, far future feeling of Earth in the 'Book of New Sun' series by Wolfe.

[milamber_reborn]

Feist
Krondor, Elvandar, Honoured Enemy setting, Empire Trilogy setting.

Jordan
The scenes of battlefields are described well.

Tolkien
Just about all of it.

Stephen King's It
The setting of Maine.