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Roy Morton
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16 years ago

I was talking to a good friend last year who has spent many years in and around Oxford. He told me that JRR Tolkein had lived there when he wrote the Lord of the Rings. His Hobbits were based on a group of itinerant miners - mostly Cornish - that had moved up there looking for work. Their accomodation they fashioned from the soft country rock by mining caves into the hillside where they lived and set up quite a large community. Can anyone corroborate this story?

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mikebee62
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16 years ago

Hi Roy,
I believe you!! . But seriously My mums from the North East and people DID used to live in sea caves up around Newcastle and Sunderland !!!. Scarey but true!!
Mike.

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ICLOK
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16 years ago

But don't Hobbits come from Brea!!!!

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh Creeper!!!!!

Bill
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16 years ago

Tolkein came from near Birmingham I think. There were people living in sandstone cave dwellings around Kinver until the 20thC. These may be the original hobbits.
Bill - a proud Mercian doing missionary work in Cornwall . . .

BILL