![]() ![]() Tolkien stated "I am in fact a Hobbit", and scholars agree that he was in many ways like his Hobbits, enjoying good food, gardening, smoking a pipe, and living in a familiar and comfortable home. Character from architecture įurther information: Architecture in Middle-earth 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. "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. Jackson said of the set, "It felt as if you could open the circular green door of Bag End and find Bilbo Baggins inside." Ĭhad Chisholm and colleagues, reviewing Jackson's 2012 film The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey for Mallorn, write that Jackson humorously has the "rough and ready" Dwarves "bursting into Bilbo's neat little home and cleaning out his pantry", providing "a sort of constant comic relief to the dangers in the dark". It included a water-mill, the Green Dragon Inn, and several Hobbit-holes as well as Bag End in a small hill, with garden. Peter Jackson had an elaborate Hobbiton film set built on the Alexander sheep farm at Matamata in New Zealand for his The Lord of the Rings film series. The image may be compared with Tolkien's watercolour painting The Hill: Hobbiton-across-the-Water (above). Peter Jackson Jackson's version of the Hill at Hobbiton on the Water. The barometer is mentioned in Tolkien's drafts of The Hobbit. Another clock is mentioned in chapter 2 of The Hobbit. Baggins Esquire, depicts the interior, complete with 20th century fittings such as a wall clock and barometer. Īnother of Tolkien's drawings, The Hall at Bag-End, Residence of B. Tolkien made several pencil and ink sketches for these subjects, only gradually settling on Bag End's final location and architecture. His watercolour The Hill: Hobbiton-across-the Water shows the exterior and the surrounding countryside. Tolkien made drawings of Bag End and Hobbiton. The protagonists of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, lived at Bag End, a luxurious smial or Hobbit-burrow, dug into The Hill on the north side of the town of Hobbiton in the Shire's Westfarthing. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort. In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. The Hobbit begins with "among the most famous first lines in literature": Baggins Esquire: Tolkien's drawing of Bilbo Baggins in the front hall of Bag End, showing it as a sizeable room with 20th century fittings including a clock and a barometer. Tolkien The Hall at Bag-End, Residence of B. Peter Jackson built an elaborate Hobbiton film set including a detailed Bag End in New Zealand for his The Lord of the Rings film series.ĭescription J. ![]() Scholars have noted that Bag End is a vision of Tolkien's ideal home, and effectively an expression of character. Tolkien described himself as a Hobbit in all but size. It forms one end of the main story arcs in the novels, and since the Hobbits return there, it also forms an end point in the story circle in each case. As such, Bag End represents the familiar, safe, comfortable place which is the antithesis of the dangerous places that they visit. From there, both Bilbo and Frodo set out on their adventures, and both return there, for a while. Tolkien's fantasy novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. īag End is the underground dwelling of the Hobbits Bilbo and Frodo Baggins in J. Tolkien's painting The Hill: Hobbiton-across-the-Water, watercolour, 1938 showing its ideal position near the top of the Hill at Hobbiton, with less-favoured Hobbit-holes lower down. ![]() Bag End, Hobbiton, the comfortable underground dwelling of Bilbo and later Frodo Baggins, constructed for Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film series. ![]()
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