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Random fun! Time to list real places mentioned or that serve as the setting in your favourite books, movies, TV shows, comic books, or whatever! Harry Potter ones are fun to list, there's so many.

Phantom of the Opera:
Paris Operahouse (DUH. also known as the Palais Garnier.)
National Academy of Music (It's... a book thing.)
The graveyard in Perros-Guirec (Here's hoping there's only one if I ever go hunting for it >.>)
Mazenderan. (Who knows where within?)
Some Palace In Turkey (Reeeeal specific.)


Well, there weren't as many as I thought, but then, most of the places I thought of were inside the first one. Like the horseshoe by the box-office, and the column next to the entrance to Box Five, and Box Five itself, and... um, just about all the walls... XD

Several years ago I discovered a website created by a Watership Down fan.
The man trekked through southern England taking photos of all of the places in the book. Considering the main characters are rabbits, the places are rather ordinary. Fields, rivers, a farm, etc.

http://www.mayfieldiow.freewire.co.uk/w ... /index.htm

There's way too many to list but here's some of my favorite:
The Moulin Rouge in Paris

The Balcony of the Casa Rosada in Argentina from Evita

Freddy's house in Nightmare On Elm Street is a real house in California... but they used a similar looking house in Canada for Freddy Vs. Jason.

Minas tirith.
yes, not a real place ofcourse, but the location is apparently based upon mant-blanc in france (i shouldna thought thats the right spelling, but meh)
always had a thing for those mountains, never been there, but my dad describes them well.

I was sick outside the Mont Blanc tunnel.

my dad drove down the side of the mountain in a lorry.
while asleep.
yay for ghosts of dead grandparents is all i can say.

If my french is correct that means White Mountian?

err...
now that you mention it, i think it does

Well, it may or may not be. Tolkien directly denied that he uses metaphors for real life or real locations almost at all - a few exceptions he mentioned are the Shire being the English countryside and that the Dead Marshes are probably derived (SP?) from the trenches in WWI. Also, his wife directly inspired Luthien (Tinuviel also). Other than that, Tolkien discouraged the idea that he directly took places, events and/or people from real life.

Where did you read that Minas Tirith is supposed to be Mont Blanc? It may be one of those things I just never found.

It's a pity that just about none of the places in Beowulf are very mappable (or, for the most part, existant) because Rohan is obviously very Beowulfian. In fact, I think I read somewhere that the Meduseld was originally called Heorot. Or maybe they mean the same thing. I dunno.

I'd definitely go with the Moulin Rouge! That was such an awesome movie!

cant for the life of me remember, may have been the guide to Tolkien though?

but it does make sense to me, the only Tolkien thing i couldnt place was Mordor, strikes me as South Africa, but it doesnt all add up totally

and Numenor is so Atlantis.

There's that forest in Van Helsing, and the forest in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. I like forests.

Moulin Rouge isn't that great. o.o

I enjoyed seeing the places in the books the Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons.

Eeee! Someone else has seen Robin Hood: Prince of Theives!?! Wooo!

And that's... Sherwood Forest, yep.

Um, okay, um... I'm going to insist that, while Mordor probably isn't South Africa, Tolkien was bitten by a very venomous spider there when he was four, and a servant sucked out the venom before it could kill the small boy, so there's a bit of basis for the events in Cirith-Ungol. ^-^ A
nd South Africa can be quite cold too, there's penguins... I don't think it's really Mordor material, it's far too... alive.

(Wyoming, on the other hand... no, just kidding.)