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The Lawrence and Martha Joseph Residence and Apartments, often called the Hobbit Houses, are a landmarked example of the Storybook style of architecture in Los Angeles, California. Hobbit Houses LAHCM marker Hobbit Houses turtle pond. The informal name "Hobbit Houses" is due to their supposed resemblance to the architecture of Tolkien's Shire. [1]
Tolkien made his Hobbits live in holes, though these quickly turn out to be comfortable, and in the case of Bag End actually highly desirable. Hobbit-holes range from the simple underground dwellings of the poor, with a door leading into a tunnel and perhaps a window or two, up to the large and elaborate Bag End with its multiple cellars, pantries, kitchen, dining room, parlour, study, and ...
Tolkien's painting The Hill: Hobbiton-across-the-Water, watercolour, 1938 [1] showing its ideal position near the top of the Hill at Hobbiton, with less-favoured Hobbit-holes lower down. [2] Bag End is the underground dwelling of the Hobbits Bilbo and Frodo Baggins in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. From ...
While you have to go to the theater to see "The Hobbit," some people experience J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth every day. The books that inspired the new movie and the "Lord of the Rings" film ...
Visit a Real Hobbit House. Imagine walking through a door and being transported to The Shire from the world of J.R.R. Tolkien. That's exactly what it feels like in this immersive experience.
These ‘hobbit homes’ are taking the world by storm
Hobbits traditionally live in "hobbit-holes", or smials, underground homes found in hillsides, downs, and banks, though others lived in houses. [ T 9 ] It has been suggested that the soil or ground of the Shire consists of loess and that this facilitates the construction of hobbit-holes. [ 15 ]
The homes are commonly referred to as gnome homes, mushroom houses, or Hobbit houses. [1] [2] His door, window, roof, and fireplace designs were distinct because of his use of curved lines. Young's goal was to show that a small stone house could be as impressive as a castle. Young also helped make Charlevoix the busy summer-resort town that it ...