Tolkien’s Mount Doom as seen in the film of Lord of the Rings

Tolkien’s iron fortress in Mordor, as seen in Lord of the Rings

Sarehole Mill, near the hamlet of Sarehole, Birmingham, where Tolkien grew up. Photograph: David Mansell

Euripides Altintzoglou’s photograph of the long-closed gates of Sunbeam Union Mill, on the outskirts of Wolverhampton. Courtesy of Wolverhampton Art Gallery

Empire Marketing Board Poster by Clive Arthur Gardiner: A blast furnace, 1927

The forest by Olafur Eliasson

Sean Astin and Elijah Wood in The Lord Of The Rings

Edward Wadsworth, In the Black Country, 1919, Woodcutprint on paper © Wolverhampton Art Gallery

“Mwdor cunjrz imijz v a čard wêstland xplýtd fr its rzwsz. Ɖs xibišn xplorz ɖ lncs btwn J.R.R. Tolcīn’z dpiẋnz v ɖs fanṭsīrījn in Ɖ Lwd v ɖ Rñz n ɖ Blac Cuntri v ɖ 1900z, ẇč le a fy mîlz fṛm hiz čîldhdhom.

Alñsd imijz fṛm Tolcīn’z scečbcs, sînd frst idišnz v hiz novlz n îconic iḷstrešnz bî conseptātist Ted Nêsmiʈ, Ɖ Mcñ v Mwdor fīčrz wrcs bî uɖr 20^ʈ senčri raitrz n ātists hu hv bn inflụnst bî ɖ industrı̣l pârhâs v ɖ West Midḷndz. Cntmprri rsponsz t ɖ pôstindustrı̣l Blac Cuntri wl olso b on šo, includñ wrcs bî Trnr Prîz nominī Ričd Bilñm, ftogṛfr Brayn Grifin n ātist Yripidīz Altintzoglu, alñ wɖ an indor forist bî inṭnašnli aclemd insṭleṣ̌nātist Ôḷfur Eliysn.”

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