Thursday Doors- Bag End

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In February this year while I was in FL I had hoped to see my Sister-in-Law, but she was in New Zealand and came home the day before I was leaving for home. Our timing didn’t work out but, while she was in New Zealand she was sending me photos of some neat birds she was seeing, some gorgeous vistas, and she sent some door pics!

She and my nephew went to Hobbiton, the preserved movie film location for the Shire for the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies. The site has 44 permanent Hobbit holes including Bag End, the Party Tree, Bagshot Row, and the Green Dragon Inn.

What she didn’t know then was that my favorite book from J.R.R. Tolkien is The Hobbit. I’ve read it twice, and bits and pieces since…you know, favorite passages and quotes. Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf are my favorite characters, so when she sent a photo of Bag End I was thrilled. Bag End you see, is Bilbo Baggin’s hobbit-hole.

She said it’s okay to share the photos with you too.

While prepping for this post I dug out my old paperback copy of The Hobbit to see what Tolkien says about Bilbo’s house and door. Chapter 1, he says, ” In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. 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.

It had a perfectly round door like a porthole, painted green, with a shiny yellow brass knob in the exact middle. The door opened on to a tube-shaped hall like a tunnel: a very comfortable tunnel without smoke.”

From there he or the narrator of the story goes on about the inside of the house and how it is laid out, so we’ll skip that and go right to Robin’s images.

Bag End

©Robin Hoyt-Lawrence, Image used with permission.
©Robin Hoyt-Lawrence, Image used with permission.

The shiny brass knob in the exact middle has weathered I see, but still a very fine Hobbit door. I love all the flowers in bloom there in February!

She sent a few other images from the Shire I’ll share in another post.

Thank you Robin for sharing your door with me and allowing me to share it here.

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Hop on over there to see more doors from around the world or join the craze and add a door or two of your own. 😊

more to come…

47 thoughts on “Thursday Doors- Bag End”

  4. Beautiful pics Deborah, it has been well preserved. I visited Hobbiton some years ago after they partially removed the set for the first Lord of the Rings films the first time as they were to leave no trace of it, but the rain was so intense they abandoned it and left the holes and bridge and tree. I slipped and fell in front of Bilbo’s house and was covered in mud as it rained the day of the tour. You only had the holes like caves without the lovely trimmings seen by your sister, and no door. They rebuilt the set for the last films of the Hobbit. It was an intriguing story of how the movie company employed the local country town and contracted them to to keep quiet about it.

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    1. That’s cool that you’ve been to Hobbiton, but not the falling in the mud part. I suppose all the secrecy (NDA’) was to keep the story plot hidden from being released too soon.
      So did they describe the Shire in good enough detail for your imagination to see it?

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  10. Robin has provided a magical door for all of us to enjoy, Deborah. The door is teasingly cracked ajar, inviting us inside. A most welcoming sight…and full of potential as to what exists behind it.

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  15. Despite never having read a word of the books, this is certainly an appealing place with a cute door. I’d not want to live there — the lack of windows is the primary downside — but if it suited Bilbo, that’s what counts.

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  16. Recently we travelled to Australia for tourism and narrowly missed New Zealand, where Hobbiton would have been a priority. Thank you for sharing the picture of Bag End’s door. It’s strengthened my resolve to complete the journey.

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