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‘When I was a kid, you’d come up this hill, and all of that’ – and he gestures to the valley in front of us – ‘was on fire. The foundries and the forges and the ironworks. The potteries. The whole place glowed – sheets of sparks, 50 foot high. The fires never went out. It looked like hell. That’s what your Lord of the Rings is about. Tolkien was from round here. He was writing about how the industrial revolution turned the Midlands from Hobbiton to Mordor.’” Mordor, he wrote: how the Black Country inspired Tolkiens badlands | Books | The Guardian
Posted on: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 09:49:23 +0000

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