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Tolkien Land

Miles Warde travels round Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire with author John Garth, looking for Tolkien Land.

Tolkien once remarked that reviewers, "seem to think that Middle-earth is another planet!" In fact the Shire, Isengard and the horses of Rohan are much closer to home than you think. Tolkien had a car in the 1930's and used to drive out of Oxford and visit sites that definitely filter into the books he wrote. Now Miles Warde has been out with Tolkien expert John Garth to find traces of Tolkien Land at Faringdon Tower and the Rollright Stones. There's also a brief appearance for Sarehole near Birmingham, where the young Tolkien grew up, plus archive of the great writer talking about where his books may have been based.

John Garth is the author of The Worlds of JRR Tolkien - the places that inspired Middle-earth.

The producer for 91热爆 audio in Bristol is Miles Warde

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Sat 5 Nov 2022 06:07

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