English, Help?!?!?

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it felt like ground underfoot; it did not burn me. it is not true what some of the tales say, that the ground there burns forever, for i have been there. here and there were the marks and stains of the great burning, on the ruins, that is true. but they were old marks and old stains. it is not true either, what some of our priests say, that it is an island covered with fogs and enchantments. it is not. it is a great dead place-greater than any dead place we know. everywhere in it there are god-roads, though most are cracked and broken. everywhere there are the ruins of the high towers of the gods.


How does the place differ from the narrators Expectations??
English, Help?!?!?
The narrator expected the area he was in to be mystical and magical. He thought it would be more legendary and maybe even haunted. But it turns out it's just land. It was supposed to be a holy land, right? It looks as though maybe he lost a little faith in what he believes. Like, "maybe everything I've been taught really is too far-fetched and has been exaggerated." Something along those lines. :]