Tolkien: The Olden Days from the old mill pond restoration Watch Video
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Description: J. R. R. Tolkien lived within 300 yards of Sarehole Mill at around the turn of century, between the ages four and eight, and would have seen it from his house. The locale at that time was rural Worcestershire farmland and countryside. He has also said that he used the mill as a location in The Lord of the Rings, for the Mill at Hobbiton.nnIt was a kind of lost paradise ... There was an old mill that really did grind corn with two millers, a great big pond with swans on it, a sandpit, a wonderful
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