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Re: A Hobbit's Hole, Bag End
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Mon, 28 Jan 2002 20:50:53 GMT
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Wonderful, as all your creations invariably are. The round-arches have been
mentioned elsewhere, but a quick fix would be to just get rid of the slopes
at the sides to avoid the diamond shape. Love the little side window and
flower bed.
Bruce
-carefully, carefully, with the plates...
In lugnet.announce.moc, Jon Furman writes:
> Hi all,
> I present my first modest attempt at translating a Tolkien location into brick.
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=9222
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> "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole,
> filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy
> hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and
> that means comfort." -- J.R.R. Tolkien "The Hobbit"
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> Bag end is the home of Bilbo Baggins, the Hobbit who becomes an unlikely
> hero in the book "The Hobbit" the precursor to Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings"
> Trilogy. While not to scale, Bag End is much larger, It does feature a
> round door (that was the hardest part). I was going for the "feel" of
> Hobbiton, not necessarily a dead on recreation, so I tried to approximate
> the look and atmosphere. The tree and the roof lift off to reveal a quite
> modest (by Bilbo's standards) living area. As always, let me know what you
> think. I hope that you enjoy it.
> Jon
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| Thanks Bruce, I think that this will work, I don't know why I didn't consider it while I was building. I appreciate your help. Jon (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| Hi all, I present my first modest attempt at translating a Tolkien location into brick. (URL) a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-02, to lugnet.announce.moc) !!
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