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In
late September 1914, J.R.R. Tolkien, his life in crisis, visited his Aunt
Jane’s Phoenix Farm in Gedling near Nottingham. The poem he wrote
there on September 24th, The Voyage of Eärendel the Evening Star,
was the spark that ignited the whole of his later mythology.
Focussing on this single event, Andrew Morton and John Hayes set out to
discover more about Phoenix Farm, Jane Neave and the poem. Tolkien’s
Gedling, which contains over forty previously unpublished photographs,
explores the social changes in Gedling that gave birth to the Phoenix
Farm project. It also contains much original material for the Tolkien
enthusiast, including the fullest account so far of his influential Aunt
Jane, whom many have taken to be the model for his famous wizard, Gandalf.
Also of interest:
Tolkien's Bag End |
