Tolkien's Oxford:

Radcliffe Camera

Tolkien decided that this building, which is part of the Bodleian Library, looks like Sauron's temple to Morgoth on Nümenor. In the Notion Club Papers (published in The Downfall of Sauron: The History of Middle Earth, Volume 9), the characters confuse the two buildings.



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