The Secret Cotswolds Hidden within The Lord of the Rings

Professor Tolkien’s ‘tricksy’ map serves as the true inspiration for a tale of faerie
Sir Edward Elgar looks down over the Cotswolds from Great Malvern in the Malvern Hills. It is not widely known that the composer’s Enigma Variations conceals a secret theme! These Hills, along with the Welsh Borders, habitually inspire images of romantic symbolism, with the stories of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit among those.

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