It's a Long Way To the Ground

Been playing Lord of the Rings Online pretty steadily for the last week. Right now I'm in Lothlórien doing quests and making myself useful. Caras Galadon, the city of the elves, is a vertiginous place:



(Click To Embiggen.) You can quite easily fall to your death from those tree-platforms, but I can't blame the game developers for it, because J.R.R. Tolkien himself described them that way in The Lord of the Rings. The Mines of Moria are similar; bottomless pits and precipices everywhere there. OSHA would have a time in Tolkien's universe, I'd imagine.