Middle-earth

'He looked towards the mountains and held his swords. 'Farewell, Gandalf!' he cried.'Did I not say to you : if you pass the doors of Moria, beware? Alas that I spoke true! What hope have we without you?' (Aragorn in chapter VI -Lothlorien by J.R.R.Tolkien)

In a hundred yards or so it brought them to the river-bank, where there was a broad wooden landing-stage.

'Winter deepens behind us... The heights away north are whiter than they were...' (Gandalf in The Ring Goes South)