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  2. Lawrence and Martha Joseph Residence and Apartments

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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]

  3. Bag End - Wikipedia

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    "Bag End" was the real name of the Tudor home, dated to 1413, of Tolkien's aunt Jane Neave in the village of Dormston, Worcestershire. [15] [16] The scholar of literature and film Steven Woodward and the architectural historian Kostis Kourelis suggest that Tolkien may have based his Hobbit-holes on Iceland's turf houses, such as those at Keldur ...

  4. Architecture in Middle-earth - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Hobbit Houses: Dwellings Right at Home in Tolkien's Middle Earth

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    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 ...

  6. The Shire - Wikipedia

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    The house of Bilbo and later Frodo Baggins at Bag End, Hobbiton as filmed in New Zealand. The protagonists of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, lived at Bag End, [d] a luxurious smial or hobbit-burrow, dug into The Hill on the north side of the town of Hobbiton in the Westfarthing. It was the most comfortable hobbit ...

  7. Live in your own Lord of the Rings fantasy - AOL

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  8. Experience a Real Hobbit House Without a Passport - AOL

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    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.

  9. List of The Hobbit characters - Wikipedia

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    [T 1] However, according to the family tree published in Appendix C of The Lord of the Rings, where his name is Bandobras and "Bullroarer" is a nickname, he was the Old Took's grand-uncle, and therefore Bilbo's great great grand-uncle. [T 3] [4] The name Bandobras appears in the abandoned 1960 revision of The Hobbit. [5] (mentioned only)