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The Secret Shire of Cotswold Steve Ponty

The Secret Shire of Cotswold By Steve Ponty

The Secret Shire of Cotswold by Steve Ponty


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Summary

Steve has spent over 10 years researching the settings Professor Tolkien turned from reality in the Cotswold shires into fantasy fiction.

The Secret Shire of Cotswold Summary

The Secret Shire of Cotswold by Steve Ponty

After over ten years of research into the settings in the Cotswold shires that Professor Tolkien turned from reality into fantasy, Steve Ponty explores the locations that serve as the true inspiration for the Shire in The Lord of the Rings.

By reversing the map of the Shire and looking at it back-to-front, Steve has identified the Cotswolds and many other parts of the Four Shires (Worcester, Gloucester, Oxford, Warwick) comprising the Shire in the legendary story. He also unveils, by a process of allusion and elision, the origin of the place names we all recognise on the book's maps in both the Welsh and English languages.

Apart from the countless secrets of geography hidden in the epic story, there are references never revealed before this brand-new perspective, to personalities contemporary with Professor Tolkien's writings such that in many ways, The Lord of the Rings may be read as a parody of England in the 1930s and the war years.

About Steve Ponty

Steve Ponty was born in Pontypridd, Wales and has a background in languages. He has studied Law, as well as Classical Literature and Poetry at Cambridge. He researched the topography of the Cotswolds and surrounding areas from 2006 onwards and unearthed J.R.R. Tolkien's 'Shire' in reality, by close comparison between the maps of Middle and Mother-earth.

Additional information

GOR012617866
9781803130132
180313013X
The Secret Shire of Cotswold by Steve Ponty
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Troubador Publishing
2021-11-28
560
N/A
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