A quick visit to the mother in law in hospital this morning, parked up outside Tolkien’s house. A bit of info from the internet:
Tolkien worked in the garage on the left of this photograph, and over its door there is this inscribed Portland stone plaque, which was carved in the 1970s by Bill Brown of Kidlington for the then owner, Mr Phillips.
On the left of the plaque is the dragon Smaug from The Hobbit. The Hill (as Hobbiton HIll was known) was to the north of the town of Hobbiton, and Bag End was tunnelled into this hill by Bungo Baggins. The dwarf runes marking the compass points are explained here.
The following books in the Lord of the Rings series were published while Tolkien lived in this house:
The Fellowship of the Ring (1954)
The Two Towers (1954)
The Return of the King (1955)
