I’ve found my dream home: a real hobbit house (but not exactly a hobbit hole since it’s not built into the ground).
Asked to design a fitting repository for a client’s valuable collection of J.R.R. Tolkien manuscripts and artifacts, architect Peter Archer went to the source—-the fantasy novels that describe the abodes of the diminutive Hobbits.
“I came back my client and said, ‘I’m not going to make this look like Hollywood,’” Archer recalled, choosing to focus instead on a finely-crafted structure embodying a sense of history and tradition.
It’s actually a pretty airy and light structure and despite the architect’s claim that it wasn’t going to look like Hollywood, it is evocative of Peter Jackson’s vision of Bag End, which says to me that both men stayed fairly faithful to Tolkien’s vision.
Of course, Melanie tells me she’s not going to live in some hole in the ground that dark and dingy. I respond that this hobbit house is by no means dark and dingy and we can put in a skylight too, if she wants.
Neat! Just think, you could be on HGTV’s “Extreme Homes.”
Maybe Melanie doesn’t want to live in a hobbit hole because she, like Galdalf, would be constantly bumping her head, unlike her vertically challenged husband.
Luv ya!
Hey, look who’s talking Gimli!
Obviously it would be a Man-sized hobbit hole, not a Hobbit-sized one.
Gimli!!!!
Hey, I resemble that remark, all 5’7” of me!
BIG NEWS. The Andy and Jeanne NADEAU (formerly of Maine) who help Peter with P2BC ( I think she’s on the Board) just had their 8th child!
And guess what her name is:
ISABELLE GEMMA
So, now you’ve got an Isabella, they’ve got an Isabelle, and we’ve got an Elizabeth (which is Isabella in English).
Quite clever in design, beautiful to look at, but a bit on the SMALL side!!
Karen
A single person doesn’t need more than a cottage with two bedrooms (one and a guest one), and maybe a library. I’m surprised more builders aren’t building for this market.
“… some hole in the ground that dark and dingy” ?!? Don’t forget the description from the first paragraph of The Hobbit: “it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.”