posted by Savanah on Aug 11
Poole England is a popular tourist destination, which makes great sense since the area has been attracting humans to it since the Iron Age. This is actually one of the interesting features of the city today because it contains many ancient artifacts and relics that have been indigenous to the area, which is something not a great many cities can boast of. Of course, also extremely popular with tourists today are the great beaches and fabulous weather enjoyed all year in and around Poole. There are a diverse collection of reasons that people from all over the world visit the city and stay in an historic, yet comfortable and sometimes luxurious Poole hotel.
There has also been major literary, film and other arts genre figures who have been born in Poole or lived there at some time in their life. Writer J.R.R. Tolkien is included in this population. He lived there for approximately four yours during his retirement. Tolkien is best known for his The Lord of the Rings series. He lived from January of 1892 to September of 1973 and in addition to being a writer he was also a university professor at Oxford. He was also a close friend of C.S. Lewis who was part of the same informal literature group that Tolkien belonged to.
The Lord of The Rings series is an epic fantasy tale that Tolkien began to his earlier work The Hobbit. It has become one of the most influential works of literature in the 20th century and as such has prompted a great deal of academic research into various themes and ideas that are possibly found in it. The basic story involves the main character Dark Lord Sauron who at some point in the distant past had created a single ring that would have power and rule over the other rings of power. This was the ultimate weapon in his ultimate goal of attaining complete control over the Middle Earth.
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