The first Brandywine Festival was held in Harrodsburg, Kentucky last year. It will take place there again in October.Speaking about the new sister-event in Staffordshire, Markus Böhm, CEO of Burgschneider, said: “We are incredibly honoured to bring The Brandywine Festival back to the land where the story took flight.”He said the festival would be “stepping into a landscape that echoes the very soul of Tolkien’s work”.The event promises various themed-workshops, plus music, dancing and themed meals.A big part of it will also be the Four Farthing Games, which Burgschneider described as “a series of traditional Hobbit folk games contested across the full festival by players representing their Farthing”.Alexander said the event encouraged people to “leave behind the modern world in exchange for a simple, slow-paced hobbit-existence”.She also said she believed Weston Park’s 1,000 acres of parkland provided “the perfect backdrop for bringing the author’s fictional Middle Earth and his land of the small people – The Shire – to life”.
Weston Park in Staffordshire to hold UK’s first hobbits festival
