The Bell Inn, JRR Tolkien link ,Moreton-in-Marsh, Evenlode Valley, Cotswold District Council, Gloucestershire, England, UK, GL56 0LW
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The Bell Inn, JRR Tolkien link ,Moreton-in-Marsh, Evenlode Valley, Cotswold District Council, GlouceMore information:
More from https://thirdeyetraveller.com/tolkien-the-bell-inn-moreton-in-marsh/ Hobbits, Tolkien & The Bell Inn Moreton-in-Marsh – Did this Cotswold’s Pub Inspire Bree’s Prancing Pony If you have ever felt like escaping to Tolkien’s Legendarium of Middle Earth, then you only need to pop over to the Cotswolds in the UK! It’s highly considered that The Bell Inn Moreton-in-Marsh was the inspiration for The Prancing Pony in the town of Bree. This is one of Middle Earth’s most popular pubs featured in the Lord of the Rings! What is The Bell Inn Moreton-in-Marsh and Tolkien Connection? Of course, it’s commonly known that J. R. R. Tolkien was a resident and academic at Oxford. As a professor of English Language and Literature, he would tutor students at both Pembroke and Merton College. Tolkien’s brother lived in Evesham. A small market town in Worcestershire that was the ancestral home to Tolkien’s mother, Mabel Suffield. Unlike his brother, Hilary Tolkien had an interest in agriculture over academia! So, he bought a small orchard and market garden on the outskirts of Evesham in 1922. J. R. R. Tolkien and his family visited his farm and stayed many times. According to him, ‘Worcestershire was more like home than any other part of the world’. On many occasions, while he was an academic at Oxford, Tolkien would arrange to meet his brother Hilary in Moreton-in-Marsh. It was the perfect meeting point as it was located halfway between the homes of the two Tolkien brothers! They would meet up at The Bell Inn Moreton-in-Marsh and have a lengthy catch-up over a pint in a tiny corner of the pub.