Published
10 months agoon
By
Mike Peck
Did You Know? Michael Stanton comments in the J.R.R Tolkien Encyclopedia that the Shire is based partly on Tolkien’s childhood at Sarehole, partly on English village life in general with, in Tolkien’s words, “gardens, trees, and unmechanized farmland”.
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