Tolkien slept here

[wellinghall]

"And far from the glamour of the darting world, they have chosen to play on the town's literary heritage by naming a small side room after JRR Tolkien – who is believed to have written much of Lord Of The Rings while downing cask ales in what was The Green Dragon."

That's The Green Dragon in Leek, Staffordshire.

http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/Paperwork-blow-Crafty-Cockney-s-new-pub-venture/story-12533710-detail/story.html

Comments

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Hmm - perhaps that's where the Company of the Green Dragon got their name. Or perhaps not.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Hmm ... I think I'll go with the, "perhaps not."

[gillo]

Seems less than wholly plausible to me. Apart from a Pugin Catholic church, I can't imagine anything to draw JRRT to Leek.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I certainly know of no record of him ever going there.