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Roots of Tolkien's Middle Earth

Robert Blackham
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  • ISBN 9780752438566
  • Weight: 360g
  • Dimensions: 124 x 226mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Apr 2006
  • Publisher: The History Press Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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J.R.R. Tolkien, creator of the fictional world of Middle Earth and one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, grew up and spent his formative years in the suburbs of Birmingham. His memories of the area were later to become a valuable source of names, images and settings for his literary creations, now immortalised for millions in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

Robert Blackham, a keen student of the books and member of the Tolkien Society, has brought together a fascinating collection of images, contemporary and modern, of Tolkien-related sites in Birmingham. Some are well known but many are new and original speculations. This new collection of images provides an important look at likely sources for the roots of Middle-eart that arose from the rural and urban suburbs of Birmingham.
About Robert Blackham
ROBERT S. BLACKHAM is a member of the Birmingham Tolkien Strategy Group and vice chair of The Shire Country Park Friends, a park named to commemorate J.R.R. Tolkien’s childhood connections with the area in Birmingham. The author gives talks and lectures about Tolkien in and around Birmingham and Oxford, and has made a large number of TV and Radio appearances in connection with this. He is the author of The Roots of Tolkien’s Middle-Earth (Tempus, 2006); Tolkien’s Birmingham (Mallorn, 2007); Tolkien’s Oxford (The History Press, 2008); The Pitkin Guide to Tolkien (Pitkin, 2011) and Tolkien and the Peril of War (The History Press, 2011).

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