Something different.. a real life Hobbit home..in England ..

[Rainee]

This incredible little home is the ‘Hobbit House’, a hobbit themed cottage designed by architect Peter Archer for a
lifelong J.R.R. Tolkien fan. It’s a place dotted with picturesque barns and rolling fields.



The Hobbit House was built for the sole reason of being a personal museum, a private place where one fan of the
famous author could store all his Tolkien-inspired memorabilia. A 30 year collection of books,
Exterior views of the Hobbit inspired house
Wouldn’t be a hobbit home without a small round wooden door.




The inside is just as cosy as you’d imagine.







It even has a Tolkien inspired chess board.
Archer, who had little knowledge of Tolkien’s work before designing the Hobbit House, explains:
Upon starting the project I read the book The Hobbit and watched the Lord of the Rings movies, but more


importantly, looked at the range of writings by Tolkien, including amazing sketches he had done to illustrate his


work. I remember at the start saying that we would be happy to design the structure but we were not going to do a


Hollywood interpretation. We wanted it to be timeless. It was built in 2004 but looking at it, you could think it


was from 1904 or 1604.
Now all I want to do is get comfy in that little hobbit home and smoke a pipe by the fire…that is until some pesky


dwarves come knocking on my door wanting an adventure.

 

[Jillaroo]

Love the house Rainee:bowknot:

 

[Justme]

Creepy!

 

[Davey Jones]

Ill be visiting the make believe Hobbit home at Universal theme park this Saturday,Ill tell them you all said "hi".

 

[SeaBreeze]

I love the little hobbit house Rainee, thanks for posting! :flowers:

 

[Pam]

I love it, could quite easily live there!

 

[Denise1952]

This is neat I'm wondering if the folks that live there are shorter, or if it's built to fit taller folks, must be Love it Rainee, ty for sharing it denise

 

[That Guy]

Love it! Just as long as there are no Orcs about . . . !

 

[Denise1952]

is that anything like the nekked caveman?? I don't know what an orc is obviously

 

[Warrigal]

Delightful, and probably just the house for vertically challenged moi.

NWLady, do you mean to say that you have not read or watched The Lord of the Rings trilogy?
Put it on your bucket list immediately.

Here is how orcs came into being

"Do you know how the Orcs first came into being?
They were elves once, taken by the dark powers, tortured and mutilated.
A ruined and terrible form of life..."

This is an orc

 

[Denise1952]

Delightful, and probably just the house for vertically challenged moi.

NWLady, do you mean to say that you have not read or watched The Lord of the Rings trilogy?
Put it on your bucket list immediately.

Here is how orcs came into being



This is an orc

Yes, I did see them Warri but I didn't remember what the Orc was in the movie. I kept thinking about that poor little weird creature. Can't remember what he was called either. Thank you for showing me though, I seem to recall "it" now denise

 

[Warrigal]

The poor little weird creature is Gollum, once known as Sméagol, who has been corrupted by The "One Ring to Rule Them All".

How could you miss the orcs? There were whole armies of them.
Were you snogging in the back row? :lol:

 

[Denise1952]

The poor little weird creature is Gollum, once known as Sméagol, who has been corrupted by The "One Ring to Rule Them All".

How could you miss the orcs? There were whole armies of them.
Were you snogging in the back row? :lol:

No, I just don't recall the names of all the characters. For me it is quite normal not to remember things, not as well as I used to I admire anyone that can though, denise

 

[That Guy]

Forget the movies. Read the books!

 

[Denise1952]

I'm not into fantasy type books. I like reading books more like text books. That's great you like to read them, and get something out of them. I enjoy movies, especially the older ones that really had quality

 

[That Guy]

I'm not into fantasy type books. I like reading books more like text books. That's great you like to read them, and get something out of them. I enjoy movies, especially the older ones that really had quality

I'm not into fantasy type books, either. But a friend kept insisting that I read The Hobbit and I loved it. Again . . . forget the movies and read the books. Always better.

 

[Denise1952]

No, I'm not going to forget the movies, not when they have someone like Viggo Mortenson in them, :lofl:No, he can't act, who cares:lofl:

 

[Warrigal]

I'm not into fantasy type books, either. But a friend kept insisting that I read The Hobbit and I loved it. Again . . . forget the movies and read the books. Always better.

Reading all of the Lord of the Rings books takes some commitment. They can be heavy going but after having seen the movies it makes a reread more interesting. I've read the trilogy and seen the movies multiple times. There's a lot of depth in both versions.

I haven't read the Hobbit yet and I think the latest movies so far are very thin and repetitive.

 

[Ina]

I read the Hobbit and the trilogy back when I was 18-19, while I was in Boston. I remember trying to talk to others about the books when I came back to Houston. Nobody had a clue as to what I was talking about. I gave my children copies of the books, and then to any child I could talk into reading them. All of my family are big readers, except my husband. He was into Gene Roddenberry.

 

[Warrigal]

Don't knock Gene Roddenberry. He's no Tolkien but his Star Trek vision has a lot of depth too.
It's just that it is expressed in another medium.

 

[Ina]

Between Tolkien and Roddenberry, my children and grandchildren have developed great imaginations and a love for books. Star Trek even put out a few comic books, I still have one somewhere in my old books.