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Mithalwen · 04-25-2005, 10:56 AM

That is why I think "Pitt Rivers" - with all it's weird and wonderful ethnographical artefacts ... has to be a mathom house...... and just around the corner for Tolkien... Have a look

http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/oxfordtour/pittrivers/map.html

04-25-2005, 10:56 AM	#9
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,460	That is why I think "Pitt Rivers" - with all it's weird and wonderful ethnographical artefacts ... has to be a mathom house...... and just around the corner for Tolkien... Have a look http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/oxfordtour/pittrivers/map.html __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace Last edited by Mithalwen; 04-25-2005 at 11:02 AM.