Forest Roads Leading to Middle Earth

One of the courses I'm taking this term is 임도설계학 (Forest Roads Design). Being an agriculturist, this subject, just like the course on 산림작업시스템특론 (Forest Operation Systems) last semester which are both being handled by 교수님, is a new one for me. Thus, I have to do some advance reading and since almost all of the printed reference materials are all in Korean, I have to rely mostly on internet sources.

This morning, I started reading the materials which my professor gave me, in the introductory part of the Forest Engineering Guidebook it stated "the materials presented in this guidebook are primarily for skilled, experienced, and knowledgeable technical personnel..." And so, since I am not skilled, experienced, and knowledgeable on this particular subject, I decided to look for more basic reading materials on forest roads. I turned to good old Google and typed "forest roads."

When the search came out my eyes as always, looked at the pictures on top then to the short description on the right side.  These descriptions, more often than not comes from Wikipedia, thus I looked at the main links.

It was then that I realized that three of the top five suggested sites are about "Old Forest Roads" in "Middle-Earth."  I can't help but smile. Initially because I am a Lord of the Rings fan and  then because it is just so funny.  I was expecting that scientific or technical papers will flood the search but instead it was filled with Tolkein's fictional world. I was even tempted to open the sites but then I have to study so I browsed further down the list and found one from Colorado State which had more basic discussions about the topic.

Middle earth will have to wait.