Perrott's Folly - geograph.org.uk - 1589253

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Perrott's Folly, near to Chad Valley, Birmingham, Great Britain.

Thought to be the inspiration for an illustration of 'Orthanc' one of the 'Two Towers' in Tolkien's 'Lord of the Rings'. Tolkien spent his teenage years in nearby Stirling Road and Duchess Place.

Perrott's Folly, or Monument, was constructed in 1758 by John Perrott as a folly or hunting lodge. It was converted to a weather observatory by Follet Osler in 1884 and was later used by the Birmingham & Midland Institute and Birmingham University until 1979.

The other tower is at Edgbaston Waterworks and is thought to be Minas Tirith.
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