wellinghall: (Tom Tower)
wellinghall ([personal profile] wellinghall) wrote2011-01-15 12:39 pm
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Tolkien slept here

"Tolkien is said to have modelled the little burrow on his own house in Northmoor Road, Oxford."

http://kateshrewsday.wordpress.com/2011/01/12/burrow/

[identity profile] parrot-knight.livejournal.com 2011-01-15 12:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know that there is anything burrow-like about the houses in Northmoor Road, except possibly the cellars...

[identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com 2011-01-15 12:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I didn't realise they had cellars.

[identity profile] parrot-knight.livejournal.com 2011-01-15 12:55 pm (UTC)(link)
That's just an assumption based on their age.

[identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com 2011-01-15 12:56 pm (UTC)(link)
And not an unreasonable one.

I might still have the sale particulars of one of the houses there - I'll have a look.

[identity profile] widsidh.livejournal.com 2011-01-16 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I seem to remember that the interior of Bag End is quite roomy, from a hobbit's point of view...