Lyme Regis is a holiday place for the Tolkien family. Here Tolkien dedicated himself to the art of drawing and painting. A pencil sketch that dates back to 1928 shows a hill of Lyme (maybe the Tumble Hill) covered by tall trees. These trees are similar to the ones of two other sketches, that depicted places of Middle Earth: the island of Tol Sirion and the forest Taur-nu-Fuin.

The most interesting thing, however, is related to the sketch below. It represents the sacred mountain of Valinor, the Taniquetil. In the foreground is it possible to see a swan-shaped ship, that actually departed from the Swan Harbour. In the elvish language Quenya, the harbour is called Kópas Alqalunten. Kópas might have been inspired by the Lyme Regis harbour of Cobb.