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Gwaihir the Windlord · 09-03-2003, 02:27 AM

Industrial Revolution, hmmm... well he isn't that old, you know. We are talking about the twentieth century. The countryside he grew up in was industrialised to a significant extent after his childhood there, this was not in the Industrial Revolution of 1800 but the early decades of the 1900's. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Oxfordshire is not it, and he in fact made it quite clear what the Shire was modelled on. (Hint: type 'Tolkien's childhood county' or something into Google, you'll probably get an answer. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img])

09-03-2003, 02:27 AM	#11
Gwaihir the Windlord Essence of Darkness Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Evermore Posts: 1,420	Industrial Revolution, hmmm... well he isn't that old, you know. We are talking about the twentieth century. The countryside he grew up in was industrialised to a significant extent after his childhood there, this was not in the Industrial Revolution of 1800 but the early decades of the 1900's. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] Oxfordshire is not it, and he in fact made it quite clear what the Shire was modelled on. (Hint: type 'Tolkien's childhood county' or something into Google, you'll probably get an answer. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img])