Malvern Hills
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The Malvern Hills are in the English counties of Worcestershire, Herefordshire and a small area of northern Gloucestershire, dominating the surrounding countryside and the towns and villages of the di
Malvern Hills, looking northwest. Upper Welland is visible in the foreground.
Gullet Quarry and unconformity
St. Ann's Well, Great Malvern, a popular café for walkers on the hills. The building on the right houses the spout from which the water surges into a basin.
Iron Age earthworks, British camp
J. R. R. Tolkien
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was an English writer and academic philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
Malvern Hills
…in the Unruffled Lakes"; and "Out on the Lawn I Lie in Bed". He also wrote a long poem about the hills and their views, called simply The Malverns. J.R.R. Tolkien found inspiration in the Malvern landscape which he had viewed from his childhood home in Birmingham and his brother Hilary's home near Evesham. He was…
Tolkien c. 1925–1926
1892 Christmas card with a coloured photo of the Tolkien family in Bloemfontein, sent to relatives in Birmingham, England
Birmingham Oratory, where Tolkien was a parishioner and altar boy (1902–1911)
King Edward's School in Birmingham, where Tolkien was a pupil (1900–1902, 1903–1911)