Did Tolkien sleep here?

[wellinghall]

"As readers of the Beyond Guardian Leeds Posts will be aware, J. R. R. Tolkien is to honoured this week with a blue plaque, right here in 'our' fair city.

He taught as a Professor at the University of Leeds for five years, producing his 'A Middle English Vocabulary' & the definitive edition of 'Sir Gawain & the Green Knight'.

Daragh Corcoran of BBC Radio Leeds is hoping to talk to someone about Tolkien's time in Leeds. If you're a fan & know how/if/whether the geography of Leeds influenced in his epic Middle Earth books then Daragh needs YOU!!!

Please contact him with your interest at www.twitter.com/daraghcorcoran!"

http://www.leedsbookclub.com/2011/10/tolkien-in-leeds.html

Comments

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

By the way, I thought of you last week when I read in the FlyBe in-flight magazine something along the lines of, "The Walking Festival in Torridon, inspiration for Tolkein's(sic) Middle Earth..."

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Ah, that's so sweet! ;-)