Ravishing My Muse at the Hobbit Boutique Hotel

“Above the laminated breakfast menus in a guest house on President Steyn Avenue, Bloemfontein, South Africa, is an unexpected sight. “John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, was born on this site on 3 January 1892,” reads an iron plaque engraved in English and Afrikaans.”

Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born in South Africa ‘The Land of She’ where the author Henry Rider Haggard fought the Boars, and where he placed his famous heroine. Tolkien was inspired by the Pre-Raphaelite author and artist, William Morris who was my hero in 1969 a year before I met Rena Easton who was my model for my Pre-Raphaelite Revival painting that inspired Rosamond to take up art. Haggard, Morris, and Tolkien contributed to Fantasy Writing more then any other three men. To discover that my grandfather, Royal Rosamond, was bid to write by Fanny Cory, the painter…