Northern European countries like Sweden returned this love from the very beginning, with Scandinavia offering multiple world-first Tolkien adaptations ... The Two Towers, The Hobbit: The Battle ...

A tower that inspired J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings has been sold – for a pound. A homeless charity has snapped up seven-storey Perrott’s Folly, which overlooks Edgbaston Reservoir ...

Like the bog, it forms part of Birmingham's little-known Tolkien Trail, which takes you to landmarks the author used in his books, including the Two Towers - of Edgbaston, not of Middle Earth.