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Otto is a critically acclaimed director who won a Bafta for his work on Peaky Blinders and directed the 2018 film Robin Hood. The country estate is owned by the current Lord Bledisloe, Rupert, who is the brother of the series lead director Otto Bathurst. Now the country estate on the outskirts of Lydney will be providing a backdrop for a TV series which is also about warring factions in troubled times. Many believe the impressive scowles provided the writer with inspiration for the landscape of Middle-earth and some of Tolkien's characters were derived from legends about creatures living underground at a Roman Temple he was excavating that was known as Dwarf’s Hill. READ NEXT: Camilla visits Wiltshire village with her adorable rescue dogs Makers of The Winter King have been filming scenes at the Forest of Dean estate where Tolkien was involved in archaeological digs shortly before writing his books. The new series is said to have inspired Tolkien to write The Lord of the Rings, reports GloucestershireLive. There was also a film set at a Wye Valley quarry, an artificial fortified encampment in a rocky canyon at Patchway Studios Bristol, a village at the Blaise Castle estate in north Bristol, and in Watchet, Somerset. That includes scenes being shot in Bradford-on-Avon. It it understood that filming took place across 70 days between July 2022 and January 2023 at several locations across the West country. A new TV epic about the legends surroundings King Arthur is due to hit our screens soon, and filming for it took place right here in Wiltshire.