The Camp under the Lonely Mountain

One picture that I was able to do relatively quickly, in an hour, so it is relatively simple, but I am quite happy with what I was able to do in the short time. This is the second camp of Thorin and company under the Lonely Mountain:, from where they set out to search for the secret door. From all the possible camps I chose this one as it allowed me to use an interesting scenery with the Mountain towering in the background right above them.
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They moved their camp then to a long valley, narrower than the great dale in the South where the Gates of the river stood, and walled with lower spurs of the Mountain. Two of these here thrust forward west from the main mass in long steep-sided ridges that fell ever downwards towards the plain. On this western side there were fewer signs of the dragon's marauding feet, and there was some grass for their ponies. From this western camp, shadowed all day by cliff and wall until the sun began to sink towards the forest, day by day they toiled in parties searching for paths up the mountain-side. If the map was true, somewhere high above the cliff at the valley's head must stand the secret door. Day by day they came back to their camp without success.⁠
📖 J. R. R. Tolkien: The Hobbit. Chapter 11. On the Doorstep