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Alright. Foremost, it is not necesarily England (though likely based off Tolkien's experience), rather it is all industry.

As I already noted, there are many industrial-style buildings and terrain features in Mordor and Isengard. We have references to slag heaps, crushed stone, oily water, smokestacks, industrial mills, and industrialized farming. Wheels and technology always appear on the side of evil. There is also the general appearance:

"a perpetual twilight reigns during the day, and during the night fires on all sides light up the dark landscape with a fiery glow. The pleasant green of pastures is almost unknown, the streams, in which no fishes swim, are black and unwholesome; the natural dead flat is often broken by high hills of cinders and spoil from the mines; the few trees are stunted and blasted; no birds are to be seen, except a few smoky sparrows; and for miles on miles a black waste spreads around, where furnaces continually smoke, steam engines thud and hiss, and long chains clank, while blind gin horses walk their doleful round. From time to time you pass a cluster of deserted roofless cottages of dingiest brick, half swallowed up in sinking pits or inclining to every point of the compass, while the timbers point up like the ribs of a half decayed corpse. "

- A British travel guide

"The country is very desolate everywhere; there are coals about and the grass is quite blasted and black. I just now see an extraordinary building flaming with fire."

-A young Queen Victoria



One can draw many similarities to Mordor in these descriptions. While of course it is not soley based off of this, there are quite a few paralells.

 Ithilion, Discussions Moderator (Auta i lome) 02:00, February 24, 2017 (UTC)