Tolkien slept here

[wellinghall]

"The authors of The Chronicles of Narnia and The Lord of the Rings were visitors here and it is said that the great bulk of the Malvern Hills gave them inspiration for at least parts of their works of fantasy. It is claimed that CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien once spent an evening drinking and chatting together in a Malvern pub.

It was a winter’s evening and snow lay all about and more snow gently fell on the ground. As they wrapped themselves in their winter coats, it is said, the two authors looked out at the wintry scene and Lewis, upon seeing a street lamp shining through the snow, turned to Tolkien and said 'that would make a wonderful opening line to a book'.

That image would later appear at the opening of the Narnia adventures."

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/09/05/getting-inspired-malvern.html

Comments

[pellegrina.livejournal.com]

Has anyone ever plotted all these places on Google Maps?

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

"Tolkien slept here..." would make a good book. You'd make it into a travelogue and describe your journey to all the places he'd allegedly been to. The sort of thing Dave Gorman does.

[tigerfort.livejournal.com]

The final sentence of the first paragraph is (a) another fine example of those marvellous statements that are inherently true as phrased and (b) claiming something that actually strikes me as plausible. Pity about the rest, though :)

[fallingtowers.livejournal.com]

The story is complete tosh, of course, but I do like the image of an ordinary street lamp shining through the snow and slowly transforming into that first, magical glimpse of Narnia.