Editing Bag End (section)

=== Real-world origins ===

{{anchor|Jane Neave}}

[[File:Iceland Keldur Earth covered homes.JPG|thumb|upright=1.25|Turf-covered houses at [[Keldur]], Iceland]]

"Bag End" was the real name of the [[Tudor period|Tudor]] home, dated to 1413, of Tolkien's aunt Jane Neave in the village of [[Dormston]], [[Worcestershire]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Lord of the Rings inspiration in the archives |url=https://www.explorethepast.co.uk/2013/05/lord-of-the-rings-inspiration-in-the-archives/ |website=Explore the Past (Worcestershire Historic Environment Record) |date=29 May 2013}}</ref><ref name="Morton 2009">{{cite book |last=Morton |first=Andrew |author-link=Andrew Morton (writer) |title=Tolkien's Bag End |publisher=Brewin Books |location=Studley, Warwickshire |year=2009 |isbn=978-1-85858-455-3 |oclc=551485018}} Andrew Morton wrote [http://www.tolkienlibrary.com/press/1065-Bag-End-A-Very-English-Place.php an account of his findings] for the Tolkien Library.</ref>
The scholar of literature and film Steven Woodward<!--Bishop's University--> and the architectural historian Kostis Kourelis suggest that Tolkien may have based his Hobbit-holes on Iceland's turf houses, such as those at [[Keldur]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Woodward |first1=Steven |last2=Kourelis |first2=Kostis |chapter=Urban Legend: Architecture in The Lord of the Rings |editor1-last=Mathijs |editor1-first=Ernest |editor2-last=Pomerance |editor2-first=Murray |title=From Hobbits to Hollywood: Essays on Peter Jackson's 'Lord of the Rings' |publisher=Brill |date=2006 |isbn=978-90-420-1682-8 |doi=10.1163/9789401201513_016 |pages=189–214 |s2cid=243929250 }}</ref>