The Tolkien Coming of Age Club 2

[Child of the 7th Age]

It is more a fetish than a lifestyle choice...

"Bleurgh! I don't like it."

It is indeed a good thing that I don't make my living as a realtor, since I would now be out on the streets begging for subsistence scraps. I will try to round up more hobbit holes late tonight on the net, and see if they meet with anyone's approval.

Esty - It is intriguing to me to see how much time, effort, and money people put into this construction effort. How extraordinary that we work so hard to "get it right", when in a very real sense there really is no "right" since hobbits and burrows are a construct out of the author's head. And yet somehow we seem to think that there is a "real" hobbit hole floating somewhere out there in space and we judge things against our view of that Platonic (or Tolkienic) ideal.

Somehow I think this is connected with the strange sensation that some of us have that, when we read LotR, we are somehow "going home". Over the years, I've heard so many people express their feelings in those terms. So some of us seem to want to create a physical embodiment of that feeling.

Mithalwen --

A treehouse? Erg....I would truly feel uncomfortable no matter how lovely or artistic the structure would be.