Gordale Scar,
100 x 75 cm, © 2016,
€ 1 500,00
Two-dimensional | Painting | Oils | On paper
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When you pass the Gordale Beck, the stream that flows through this valley in North Yorkshire in England, the path around a corner suddenly turns out to be a blind road (except for more experienced climbers).It ends on a waterfall plunging its water over large boulders in an immense basin of rock walls, which appears to be a collapsed cave: the Gordale Scar. What does this remind me of? It looks like Helms Deep from 'The Lord of the Rings'! That’s not possible because that movie was filmed in New- Zealand. But after some research I discover that indeed Tolkien has gained the inspiration for Helms Deep right here! Along this brook, apart from the Gordale Scar, lie also: Janet's Foss, a waterfall where according to the legends, Janet the Queen of the fairies had her home and Malham Cove, an 80m high limestone rock-face, crowned by a natural limestone pavement.