Apparently the Trout Inn is really famous. And I'm not just talking about it being the watering hole of Inspector Morse. It is actually responsible for some of modern literatures greatest stories.
Tolkien, C.S Lewis and Lewis Carrol all spent many a day lounging by the Thames, drawing inspiration from the Inn and it's surroundings.
After listening to a few locals, it turns out hobbits, orcs and gandalf aren't actually from New Zealand. Amd hobbiton isn't 25 miles west of Auckland. They were all thought up by this bloke called tolkien.
Across the bridge is a private island and garden, maintained by this 80 year old curator. No public are allowed to visit but staff are, either in the morning before customers come, or after work when you've had a few and the fence gate doesn't look that high to jump.
On this island is a life size lion made out of wood, and it is from this island that Clive Staples Lewis drew his inpsiration for his Narnia chronicles. I'm still looking for the Witch and the Wardrobe.
However there is this ghost called the White Lady which is said to haunt parts of the restuarant and the waterways of Oxfordshire. It is the ghost of Rosamund Clifford, the mistress of King Henry II. She is said to have been poisoned by Henry's wife at the time through jealously. And now she just floats around scaring people.
Beyond the nunnery is fields that the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson used take a young girl called Alice to play. From this fields the Reverend created a Wonderland and penned a novel under the name Lewis Carroll. I saw a cat the other day but it wasn't big and purple.
Jeremy Clarkson came in the other day.
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2 comments:
sounds brilliant ben! its well nice! did you talk to topgear man?
What are you on about? Of course hobbits are from New Zealand. I met one.
Other than that I trust it all goes grandly? :)
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