I don't know is this related to the topic, but I'll write it anyways.
My father visited France a few years ago and found a place called
Lorien. He even visited a village named
Rohan. There was an inn in the middle of the village called
Le Cheval Blanc , which means The White Horse. Tolkien ever visited Northern France?
(The Lorien-thing was probably a coincidence, since it's Elvish, but what about Rohan? Was (the village or) the inn named after Tolkien's inventions or did Tolkien get the idea from a little village in France? The place was coincidentally named Rohan and a Tolkien-fan named his inn the White Horse?)
Well, anyways I think it's funny.