Tolkien slept here

[wellinghall]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-21859633

Question: "Did Gollum get his name from a cave in the Irish Burren?"

To which the answer is clearly, "No."

Comments

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Hmm - I think I might live in one of the few places in the world not to claim to have influenced Tolkien - but I'm sure someone will come up with something for us to claim eventually...

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Too late!

"one tried to tell me that he used the Isle of Man as example for Númenor"
http://www.lotrplaza.com/archives/index.php?Archive=archive&TID=190975

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Bother! Ah, but that person then went on to say but we all know that isn’t true....

And we're denying everything - it wasn't us!

[hhimring]

I find the suggestion that Gollum's name really means "rock dove" sort of appealing--not that it resembles anything I've seen of Tolkien's naming processes!