 Tolkien visited the Malvern Hills with C. S. Lewis, and recorded excerpts from "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" in Malvern in 1952, at George Sayer's home.Sayer wrote that Tolkien relived the book as they walked, comparing the Malvern Hills to the White Mountains of Gondor.Gondor as it appeared in Peter Jackson's film adaptation of "The Lord of the Rings" has been compared to the Byzantine Empire.