I found the entrance to the dwarven halls!

Thu, Oct 02, 2008

Another pic from my journeys through England: Khazad-dûm!

This is a door of a church in the Cotswolds village of Stow-on-the-Wold, which some folks think may have inspired Tolkien — who was based in nearby Oxford — when he was writing The Lord of the Rings.

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Jack

Fri, Oct 03, 2008 3:52pm

Wow, that’s an awesome door. Are those on the sides really trees?

bronxbee

Tue, Oct 07, 2008 1:02pm

they are huge yew trees which are on either side of the door. gave me the shivers as soon as i saw it — i probably took 30 photos of it in the space of ten minutes!