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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.

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=9222

"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"

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



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: A Hobbit's Hole, Bag End
 
(...) Hey Bruce Do you mean like this? : (URL) Deering (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.castle)
  Re: A Hobbit's Hole, Bag End
 
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 (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jan-02, to lugnet.castle)

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  A Hobbit's Hole, Bag End
 
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 (...) (22 years ago, 28-Jan-02, to lugnet.announce.moc) !! 

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