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Building Your Own Hobbit Hole
Alien54 writes "Sometimes people go too far in being a fan of a great movie or of a great book. Now you can be the proud owner of a Hobbit Hole. The site offers basic plans, as well as technical resources. For example, one thing you might want to consider in your planning is Large Elliptical Precast Concrete Pipe."
My hobbit hole might get a little warm with my 4 computers all stuffed into a small, poorly circulated room. but a hobbit hole sounds fun. -)
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And remember: it's not realistic unless you make the chandelier so low that wizards bump their heads on it.
"Einstein argued that [...] God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer." ~ Brooks
...you happen to be taller than the average hobbit.
Which most human adults are.
Now, I like the concept, but it seemed like the pipe they were using wouldn't accomodate anybody larger than a child.
I wasn't aware of anything that constituted a "hillside" in Florida. I thought it was just a sandpile with a swamp at each end.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty.
Ben
Do not build hobbit holes in large metropolises with pre-existing transit systems. Cohabitation may occur.
As anyone who has visited Matamata (where Peter J filmed Hobbiton) can tell you, it's the original hobbit hole...
visit it at high speed if you must - I recommend at least 125 kph.
I am a leaf on the wind
"Sometimes people go too far in being a fan of a great movie or of a great book."
Case in point:
"After seeing The Fellowship of the Ring, you have probably fantasized about living in a Hobbit Hole and lazing about in the shade."
Um... not sure how to break this to you, but NO I HAVEN'T.
*shakes head*
Too far gone, this one is.
My other sig is also a
i bet most potential hobbit-holers will find it easier to get permits than to get laid.
Simply by supplying these plans as a package with a Thoreau's Walden, you too can be rid of the biggest smelliest most-hardcore tolkien geeks in your neighborhood. :)
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Cover your eyes and click this link!
My uncle built a rammed earth barn that's half underground and located in a part of the country where the theme music to Deliverance is still on the top 40. He's "off the grid" and lives with his horses like a wild man torn between the Gratefull Dead and his LOTR books.
If his generator powered Mac Classic could see pictures of that hobbit hole he would be on his backhoe tonight, digging pits all over perfectly good hills.
Fear the pot smoking LOTR fanatics.
Low overhead, my boy! We pass the savings onto you!
... someone is reading a logfile and saying "wtf???"
Smart move keeping the site simple - serve it up, IIS!
"Consider yourself a member of a virtual corporation with Mr. Torvalds as your Chief Executive Officer." - Linux Advocac
I wasn't aware of anything that constituted a "hillside" in Florida. I thought it was just a sandpile with a swamp at each end.
Florida is probably better for a replica of hobgoblin camp or maybe Golem's home (we likesss it) than a hobbit hole.
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It's gotta be weird to call up the cable company and say you want your hobbit hole to have a broadband connection. Good luck telling them your address. "Just drive through the woods, over the grass field. I'm three hills down on the right." Are those vans good for offroading?
It's good to see they've scaled the hole up to human size... That would be an expensive playhouse otherwise...
;)
Right, 'cause this way it's a perfectly normal place to live
You just come along with me and have a good time. The Galaxy's a fun place. You'll need to have this fish in your ear.
Round doors in hills? Don't know if they were Tolkien-inspired but take a drive through Saskatchewan some time. There have been homes like this for some time.
Y2K bunker--> hobbit hole conversion kit.
Eloi are stupid, throw morlocks at them!
Just imagine a beowulf cluster of these ... no, wait. That'd be Hobbiton, wouldn't it?
i am a soviet space shuttle
...when the Internet would have a guide on how to "build" a hole.
I'll form my OWN solar system! With blackjack! And hookers!
However, calling it a hobbit hole turns it into a time and money consuming quest to prove to everyone in the neighborhood that you'll never breed.
The only reason I keep my Windows partition is so I can mount it like the bitch that it is.
I don't know about you, but I prefer to watch old porn flicks and imagine I'm the pizza delivery boy...
A hobbit hole! Now THAT would help me woo the ladies!
I do security
Hobbits usually put their pipeweed *in* their pipes to smoke it, but rolling it in joints and hanging out in pipes will do in a pinch, I suppose, as long as you're not overly adventurous about it and it doesn't make you late for dinner...
Bill Stewart
New Fast-Compression-only CPR http://preview.tinyurl.com/dy575ks
Maybe I shouldn't do this, but all that sewer pipe housing idea just makes me want to go...
COWABUNGA!
-- Tino Didriksen / projectjj.dk
My boyfriend always calls me a Hobbit, and says I live in a Hobbit Hole (even though I live in the dorms). It's nice to see that I'm not the only one out there who lives in one! My boyfriend even made me a foam sword and told me to name it "Sting."
Troll?! They aren't supposed to appear until page 32! (Hobbit, Methuen edition) CUT! CUT! Everyone get back in your places please. Ready, camera! Action!
I'd rather have my own dark tower. It impresses the neighbors and strikes fear into the hearts of travelling mormons.
Ergonomica Auctorita Illico!
The building codes in most states in the US require a window large enough to be used as a fire escape in EVERY bedroom.
Bedroom? Why would the builder move out of his parents basement?
+++ UGUCAUCGUAUUUCU
Or pipes, anyway....
Catherine
Too bad there would be no other computers to network with. May have to count on setting up a lan party.
Ma and Pa drive by, "Look Pa, there must be a nest of Geeks movin in." "Git ma gun from the rack Ma!"
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
You don't see his type around because he actually practiced what he preached and went off to live in the hills.
...And is now just a gustatory memory in the mind of some bear. That gives one pause to consider, though: if a bear eats a hippie, does he soon get the urge to raid campsites for Chee-tos and cream soda?
They that would sacrifice their
oh, wait a minute, they live under bridges.
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Hehehe, I needed a good laugh this morning:
[...]you won't be able to discreetly make love on the opposite end of the house from your guests with your SO.
Clearly if this is a concern, you aren't in the target demographic.
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