As the third film in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Return of the King,
opens around the world, there's a huge amount of media coverage of all
things Tolkien. Some of the limelight falls on Tolkien's childhood home of
Sarehole, which provided the inspiration behind The Shire of the books.
Sarehole mill
was a favorite haunt of Tolkien, and gets a part as the Great Mill in
The Hobbit, and is also mentioned in Tolkien's own foreword to the 1966
revised edition of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
The first film,
The Fellowship of the Ring, showed both water and wind mills in its
views of The Shire.
Mills of Middle Earth