Immense gratitude that only the rich can live in places like this and you have to pay an arm and a leg to even go there on holiday once in your life
Although it is well known that JRR Tolkien based the gentle Shires of The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings novels on England’s shire counties, Rivendell was based on Lauterbrunnen Valley in Switzerland.
Tolkien visited the valley in 1911, when he was 19. He travelled from Interlaken to Zermatt with a group of eleven companions, and saw the Aletsch glacier, the Lauterbrunnen waterfalls and the Swiss Alpine peaks.
The geology of Lauterbrunnen Valley is tilted Jurassic sedimentary rocks that have been subject to a great deal of glacial activity resulting in extremely deep valleys, surrounded by 11,000 foot (3,352m) peaks visible from the valley floor. Glacial deposits softened the topography of many of the valleys and gave rise to lush, fertile soils and verdant vegetation. All this beauty was reproduced in Tolkien’s own drawings in his books.
Then, after studying at Oxford University Tolkien served in WW1 and some of the bleaker aspects of his storytelling reflect his wartime experiences.
Hello, could you point me to this hotel? I’m currently in the area and would love to visit it!
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Immense gratitude that only the rich can live in places like this and you have to pay an arm and a leg to even go there on holiday once in your life
Although it is well known that JRR Tolkien based the gentle Shires of The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings novels on England’s shire counties, Rivendell was based on Lauterbrunnen Valley in Switzerland.
Tolkien visited the valley in 1911, when he was 19. He travelled from Interlaken to Zermatt with a group of eleven companions, and saw the Aletsch glacier, the Lauterbrunnen waterfalls and the Swiss Alpine peaks.
The geology of Lauterbrunnen Valley is tilted Jurassic sedimentary rocks that have been subject to a great deal of glacial activity resulting in extremely deep valleys, surrounded by 11,000 foot (3,352m) peaks visible from the valley floor. Glacial deposits softened the topography of many of the valleys and gave rise to lush, fertile soils and verdant vegetation. All this beauty was reproduced in Tolkien’s own drawings in his books.
Then, after studying at Oxford University Tolkien served in WW1 and some of the bleaker aspects of his storytelling reflect his wartime experiences.
Hello, could you point me to this hotel? I’m currently in the area and would love to visit it!