No. But that's not the point I was trying to make.

Ernesto, have a look at the following links. There are several sites accessable by public transport, which are thought to have inspired the Lord of the Rings. Maybe you could plan a visit while you're in the UK!

http://www.bplphoto.co.uk/TolkiensBirmingham/

http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/tolkien.bcc

http://www.virtualbrum.co.uk/tolkien_trail_start.htm

"The most exciting thing for a young boy to see in the village of Sarehole was Sarehole Mill, which he refers to as 'the great mill' in The Hobbit . It stands on the River Cole, which rises near King's Norton and runs close by. It is said that Tolkien based the bad-tempered miller in The Lord of the Rings on the miller there, who perhaps understandably shouted at him and his younger brother when they were playing in the mill yard."

"Though only four miles from the centre of Birmingham Sarehole was then in the north Worcestershire countryside. Coming from the hot dry veld of South Africa, the green fields and woods made a deep impression on him. Tolkien said that Sarehole was the model for the Shire, home of Bilbo in The Hobbit."

"Many ideas originating from Tolkien's time in Birmingham surfaced in The Lord of the Rings, including the name Sam Gamgee who in the book was Frodo's faithful friend. Dr Joseph Sampson Gamgee was a Birmingham surgeon who invented a kind of cotton wool, known as the "Gamgee tissue". He also created a charity called The Birmingham Hospital Saturday Fund. His widow still lived in Stirling Road when the Tolkien brothers lodged there. A blue plaque on the Repertory Theatre in Centenary Square commemorates his former home on the site. "