{"id":70074,"date":"2013-03-21T07:27:30","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T12:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=70074"},"modified":"2013-03-21T07:27:30","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T12:27:30","slug":"bbc-did-gollum-get-his-name-from-a-cave-in-the-irish-burren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2013\/03\/21\/70074-bbc-did-gollum-get-his-name-from-a-cave-in-the-irish-burren\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC: Did Gollum get his name from a cave in the Irish Burren?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From the BBC:<\/em> Was the wild lunar landscape of the Irish Burren in County Clare an inspiration for Tolkien’s Middle Earth?<\/p>\n

That is the question up for debate at the first Irish symposium for Lord of the Rings lovers to be held in May.<\/p>\n

Fans of Bilbo Baggins, Gollum and other JRR Tolkien creations are invited to discuss how the limestone rocks of the Burren are reflected in his famous chronicles.<\/p>\n

JRR Tolkien was a close friend of CS Lewis, author of the Narnia chronicles, who was from Belfast in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n

He visited the Irish west coast with his friend.<\/p>\n

Tolkien also spent time as an external examiner with the English department at the National University of Ireland (NUI) Galway.<\/p>\n

It is said that one of Tolkien’s best known characters, Gollum, may be named after Poll na gColm (pronounced Pole na Gollum – cave of the rock dove) in the Burren.<\/p>\n

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