Switzerland in Tolkien's Middle-Earth
Switzerland in Tolkien's Middle-Earth A journey in search of Middle-earthIn 1911, at the age of nineteen, J. R. R. More than fifty years later, he mentioned in a letter to his son Michael that this…
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Switzerland in Tolkien's Middle-Earth
A journey in search of Middle-earthIn 1911, at the age of nineteen, J. R. R. More than fifty years later, he mentioned in a letter to his son Michael that this trip had deeply affected him. Tolkien embarked on an adventurous journey through the Swiss Alps; with a heavy pack, he hiked over many high passes.
So I wondered: Was this perhaps only the tip of the iceberg? Bilbo's journey in The Hobbit from Rivendell to the other side of the Misty Mountains, he said, was based on his own adventures in 1911.Tolkien himself named a few specific sources of inspiration, most explicitly the Silberhorn (Silverhorn). Following in Tolkien's footsteps, I myself set out into the spectacular mountain world with its stories, myths, and legends, in search of his sources of inspiration; and little by little, a vivid and mysterious world revealed itself to me: a