> Let's face it, Finland in winter is usually colder than just about
> anywhere -wondering if the Canuks on the list will get all
> defensive. :)
Do you mean those softies living as "far north" as London or Paris? Bacharach is as far north as Montreal, for instance.
>>My image of Bluefoot forests is a lot less subarctic, however, a >>tangle of vines, moss, and crooked trees. Some of the >>Kalevala-inspired pieces fit (but then parts of the kalevala may have >>been set in Estland, too, which seems to have less subarctic forests.)
> You're getting serious, which is a (ahem) serious breach of list
> protocol. :).
Nope. I was getting irrelevant, which is fine here.
> Less Subarctic certainly. Vines aren't a big part of my
> vision - its giganticism and Darkness vegetation from Dagori Inkarth
> that give it its extra crunchy flavour -
> http://home.iprimus.com.au/pipnjim/questlines/florafauna.html
After some exposure to neolithic landscape just this weekend (visited an archaeological center near some megalith barrows where the landscape is allowed to revert to neolithic forms), I say that some vines are a must for the "enchanted" parts of the forests. Those, and farns dripping in the constant rain...
>>If you go for contemporal music, the original pieces of Apocalyptica >>(four Finnish cellist famous for covering Metallica) go some way in >>the right direction.
> Waaaah!
Glad you liked it...
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