The Hobbit-Holes

Hobbit-Hole

Hobbit-hole

"In a hole in a ground there lived a Hobbit. Not a nasty,dirty,wet hole filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell,not 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." The Hobbit

Hobbit-holes or smials were the homes or dwellings of the Hobbits, especially for the Harfoots hobbits, in the Shire. The hobbit is the mortal race of the middle earth, small in sizes and amazing in abilities.

Bilbo Baggins

Hobbit-holes were dug up by the hill side. The beautiful luxurious holes with a front door, sometimes a back door and small round windows built by the rich families of hobbits, Bagginses were one of those families.Towards the end of the Third Age, during the scouring of the Shire, many Hobbit-holes of the Shire were destroyed and replaced with wooden shacks. However, The most famous hobbit-holes are

Bag End
Brandy Hall

Bag End

Bag End was a beautiful and luxurious Hobbit-hole at the end of the Bagshot Row(street) in Hobbiton. It was a Hobbit-hole with a many windows and a large circular green front and back door, and a large number of beautifully furnished rooms, as well as the famously renowned pantries which supply food for many a party or celebration. It was the home of Bilbo Baggins, and later Sackville Bagginses ( who were greedy and obnoxious and obsessed with acquiring the Bag End from their cousin Bilbo.They, in TA 2942, had almost succeeded when Bilbo had disappeared a year earlier and was thought to be dead,) then of Frodo Baggins, and after him of Samwise Gamgee and his wife Rosie Cotton.

Brandy Hall

Brandy Hall was built by Gorhendad Oldbuck in Buckland, who changed his name to "Brandybuck". It covered a low hill in Buckland and was expanded as the Brandybuck family grew. By the time of the War of the Ring, it had "three large front doors,many side doors, and about a hundred windows." The Gaffer(gardener Hobbit) referred it as "a regular warren". It was Frodo Baggins's childhood home before he was taken in by his uncle Bilbo Baggins.

Sources

The Hobbit, J.R.R Tolkien

Hobbit-hole, at Gateway

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