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Tolkien
Expo will be taking place within a stone's throw of the 'Two Towers' widely accepted as being the inspiration for those in J R R Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.
Extract from guidebook
The Two Towers
Just around the corner in Waterworks Road was a building that
must have left an impression on the young Tolkien, an extraordinary
96ft (29m) tower known as Perrott's Folly. It was built in 1758
by John Perrott and is Birmingham's oddest architectural feature.
Near it stands a later Victorian tower, part of the Edgbaston Waterworks,
and the pair are said to have suggested Minas Morgul and Minas Tirith,
the Two Towers after which the second volume of the Lord of the
Rings is named