A question about the Hobbiton set. - Page 2

LuthienTinuviel · 02-26-2002, 10:12 PM

can i join you feraway?

***Earniel*** · 02-27-2002, 11:20 AM

Oh drat!

*looks at her garden, mmmmm. Then looks at a shovel, mmmm* A plan starts to form....

aldesign · 02-27-2002, 01:07 PM

bulldozed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

what about the farmer with his Tours??????

Feraway Hawkbriar · 02-27-2002, 01:07 PM

Luthien- Yes...yes you may. *twitch*

Eariel- Heh yes go diiig then you will have hourds of people bugging you day and night to rent out the hole in yer yard. I couldnt dig a Hobbit hole on my property even if I had the time and money to do so. ( I dont really want to either because I'm moving out in a couple years anyway and would rather save the money and time for something more pemranent should I ever actually DO something like that wich is very unlikely to begin with but still a fun Idea to play with.) Theres plenty of hill sides but the ground is mostly decomposed granite (very gravely)...not very stable.

StrawberryIcecream · 02-27-2002, 02:03 PM

I have a pond! I could possibly drain it and dig further! Yes! FOR FRODO!!!!! (and Sam, Merry and Pippin.)

LuthienTinuviel · 02-27-2002, 06:55 PM

* sits by feraway undr the rock.

*sniff snif.

that deservs three sad faces i think.

Eruviel Greenleaf · 03-01-2002, 12:55 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Laurelyn

Aw . . . was that interview any good? I couldn't find the right station.

I read the transcript today, and yes it was a good interview. The transcript can be found on theonering.net in news for 2/28/02. It's so sad they had to destroy Hobbiton, though!

bropous · 03-01-2002, 11:36 AM

Well, nothing's stopping folks from setting up a Tolkienish commune modeled on Hobbiton. You can dig holes into hillsides and build round green doors and stand in the morning sun smoking pipeweed and showing off nice shiny brass buttons on your waistcoat.

Actually building like that must have drawbacks, some of which spring to mind are damp, mold, mildew, and bugs. Hobbit tech probably didn't have a tremendously effective sealer which lined their holes and kept these elements and pests out. Of course, if they built a good distance above he water table, that might ameliorate some of the moisture problems.

I would rather carve out a cave in sandstone or limestone or take an existing cave and build a home into it. Must be the dwarf in me.

02-26-2002, 10:12 PM	#21
LuthienTinuviel protector of orphaned rabbits Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Kalamazoo... yes, its a real place! Posts: 1,236	can i join you feraway? __________________

02-27-2002, 01:07 PM	#23
aldesign Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Uk Posts: 447	bulldozed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! what about the farmer with his Tours?????? __________________ The funniest story on the net, made by entmoot fanatics, visit it @ FOTMB.com FRODO LIVES!! GET FREE AVATARS HERE!

02-27-2002, 01:07 PM	#24
Feraway Hawkbriar Elven Warrior Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: California Posts: 348	Luthien- Yes...yes you may. twitch Eariel- Heh yes go diiig then you will have hourds of people bugging you day and night to rent out the hole in yer yard. I couldnt dig a Hobbit hole on my property even if I had the time and money to do so. ( I dont really want to either because I'm moving out in a couple years anyway and would rather save the money and time for something more pemranent should I ever actually DO something like that wich is very unlikely to begin with but still a fun Idea to play with.) Theres plenty of hill sides but the ground is mostly decomposed granite (very gravely)...not very stable. __________________ "The barks goes ever on and on out from the dog where they began. He's out there crapping on my lawn. Till I hit him with my van."

02-27-2002, 02:03 PM	#25
StrawberryIcecream Elf Lord Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: In my jeans Posts: 915	I have a pond! I could possibly drain it and dig further! Yes! FOR FRODO!!!!! (and Sam, Merry and Pippin.) __________________ www.foolofatook.com for all you pippin's out there.

02-27-2002, 06:55 PM	#26
LuthienTinuviel protector of orphaned rabbits Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Kalamazoo... yes, its a real place! Posts: 1,236	* sits by feraway undr the rock. *sniff snif. that deservs three sad faces i think. __________________

02-27-2002, 11:20 AM	#22
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	Oh drat! looks at her garden, mmmmm. Then looks at a shovel, mmmm A plan starts to form....

03-01-2002, 11:36 AM	#28
bropous EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMED DCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Littleton, CO Posts: 1,176	Well, nothing's stopping folks from setting up a Tolkienish commune modeled on Hobbiton. You can dig holes into hillsides and build round green doors and stand in the morning sun smoking pipeweed and showing off nice shiny brass buttons on your waistcoat. Actually building like that must have drawbacks, some of which spring to mind are damp, mold, mildew, and bugs. Hobbit tech probably didn't have a tremendously effective sealer which lined their holes and kept these elements and pests out. Of course, if they built a good distance above he water table, that might ameliorate some of the moisture problems. I would rather carve out a cave in sandstone or limestone or take an existing cave and build a home into it. Must be the dwarf in me. __________________ "...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160.

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