Oxford II

Second day... I had to deliver my paper at 4:00pm, so I had essentially another day to explore the city.

 Morning; went north to 20 Northmoor Road, home of J. R. R. Tolkien, where he wrote the Hobbit (but not the Lord of the Rings). Again, my imagination was transported to the great room in the country house in Wheatland, Indiana, where father read to us the Hobbit.

 Quiet neighborhoods in north Oxford.

 Christ Church (the college which acknowledges its ecclesiastical nature before its academic pursuits); Home to a long line of great men who have distinguished themselves forever in the history of England: John and Charles Wesley (theologian and hymn-writer), John Owen (dean of the college and Puritan theologian), J. C. Ryle (theologian), Richard Hakluyt (founder of Jamestown, Virginia), William Penn (founder of Pennsylvania), John Locke (political philosopher), Prime Minister Robert Peel, Prime Minister William Gladstone, King Edward VII, and Charles Dodgson (pen name, "Lewis Carroll," author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland).

 Tom Tower, designed by Christopher Wren...

 The dinning room where Charles I held his exiled Royalist Parliament during the Civil War. It was all outfitted for a special dinner, so I saw it at its best.

 Christ Church Abbey Cathedral

 In the Grand on High Street, site of the first English coffeehouse...

 The Bodleian Library