Tolkien slept here
Sep. 11th, 2011 10:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wellinghall"Ever since I read that Torridon in the Scottish Highlands was the inspiration for Middle Earth in Tolkien's Lord Of The Rings, I've wanted to visit and enjoy some of the area's excellent walks. When is a good time to go?"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2033402/Ask-Frank-Barrett-How-I-discover-Scotlands-Middle-Earth.html
"Certainly the mountainous Torridon landscape has many similarities with fictional Middle Earth but we have yet to find solid evidence that Tolkien strode this part of the world before he dreamed up his tale."
http://www.thetorridon.co.uk/activity-breaks/torridon-tolkien-middle-earth
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2033402/Ask-Frank-Barrett-How-I-discover-Scotlands-Middle-Earth.html
"Certainly the mountainous Torridon landscape has many similarities with fictional Middle Earth but we have yet to find solid evidence that Tolkien strode this part of the world before he dreamed up his tale."
http://www.thetorridon.co.uk/activity-breaks/torridon-tolkien-middle-earth
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Date: 2011-09-11 03:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-13 12:31 am (UTC)It's one thing to say as a visitor somewhere "This makes me think of the Shire!" It's something else entirely to say "This makes me think of the Shire so much, Tolkien must have come here!" Which is what I think a lot of the citations boil down to.
On the other hand.... I guess that means that the Torridon landscape is something worth looking at ... as a landscape.
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