Middle Earth on the Costa Blanca: Tolkien's world comes to life in Alicante castle
Saturday, March 14, 2015 @ 11:24 PM
TOLKIEN'S Lord of the Rings trilogy will be recreated inside Alicante's Santa Bárbara castle for the next year – visitors can enter Gollum's cave, sit at the desk in Bilbo's office, view life-sized characters, costumes and other Middle Earth memorabilia, and have their photo taken with their favourite fantasy heroes.
The exhibition, The Fortress of the Ring, kicks off on Friday, March 27 and will continue until the same date in 2016.
It features 700 pieces related to the two epic novels, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, the latter of which was eventually published in three tomes and has led to three box-office successes on the silver screen – The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the Ring.
Five rooms in the castle will be taken over entirely by the exhibition, and another – the Taberna Hall – will be dedicated to the life and times of John Ronald Reuen Tolkien, who was born in 1892 and published The Hobbit in 1936 and The Lord of the Rings in 1955, together with his links to cinema, rock music and comics.
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