Bag End dollhouse

[nid_dabeille]

Hey, obeliamedusa!  I just realized that you're you!  It's YOU, famous you!  I mean, rather, TWICE famous you!  But I already knew that you were once famous, the famous one who had the ginger hobbits and amazing hill-shaped Bag End dollhouse.

But I only just now found this old entry - or rather, re-found it, because I'd seen it before (and even posted about it in my journal), and only now realized that the house - and the maker - were the same as the house and the maker of Christmas hobbit fame (which I also posted about).  I mean, I'd looked at the pictures of the mound in progress, and the grass and daffodils etc., but I had never made the connection that the moundy roundy grassy house was the SAME as that square-roomed house I'd seen before.

I'd thought it was surprisingly amazing that TWO such wonderful and perfect Bag End houses could exist.

Yes.  The end.

Everyone, if you haven't looked at her Bag End house before, go now because it's AMAZING.  (I was going to say "if you haven't looked at her Bag End," but that just sounds wrong.)

Comments

[obeliamedusa.livejournal.com]

So you thought I was two people? Or that two people made hobbit dollhouses, and I was one of them? *scratches head* Well, thank you very much, in any case. :P I can assure you that the moundy grassy house is the same as the one with square rooms. I would have liked to make the rooms more roundy, but I just couldn't figure out how. Not with plywood, anyway.

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Yes, I thought that two people had made amazing hobbit dollhouses, and I was surprised that two different people could do such equally amazing jobs of it. I knew that yours was all moundy roundy, and I thought the squarish one I'd seen long ago was something unrelated to yours. (Somehow I'd stumbled across the picture of the squarish one all by itself, not on LJ. Oh I see, it's on a blog called "craphound." I don't remember how or why, but I had just found the picture (http://www.craphound.com/images/hobbitdollhouse.jpg) all by itself.)

I'm an eejit! That's like in college when I was studying American poetry and kept getting Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams mixed up, and somehow invented a third poet whose name I could never remember but who had written X, Y and Z (which were all poems by Wallace Stevens.)

:D Anyway, I shall enjoy looking at your old entries now, pre-chicken wire and trash heap stages.

I don't think squarish rooms look unnatural at all, though. I don't really know how one could make them more roundy either.

I hope they'll never sell a Bag End dollhouse. Yours is so unique. :D

[obeliamedusa.livejournal.com]

lol, I do stuff like that too. And it makes perfect sense, if you just saw that one picture by itself. I think that's the only picture I've ever posted of a bird's-eye view, and it was just so people could see the layout of the rooms. The tiny yellowish room is actually nothing, unless you want to pretend it's a secret compartment. ;) It has no door or opening; I just blocked off that space because I didn't want the bathroom to be that long and narrow.

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

SOMEONE WALLED UP HIS WIFE IN THERE! Not Bilbo, I'm sure. Maybe the builder. Or maybe that's where the fusebox and water heater are.

Oh! I was at someone's house where they actually had a secret room like that, behind their bookcase! But it too was just an architectural convenience. It was a funny little space under the stairs, more inconvenient than useful, so they'd "walled" it up, except the full length built in bookcase could pivot to allow access. And anticlimactically, they used that room to house wires and electrical connections for their sound system. :D Still, it was COOL.

So did craphound just blog about your house one day? Is that someone you know? I think I've only been blogged about once by a stranger and non-LJer, and they also gave me a comment to let me know about it. They were showing their friends my mini bottles and surgical instruments, and it made me feel famous.

[obeliamedusa.livejournal.com]

SOMEONE WALLED UP HIS WIFE IN THERE! Not Bilbo, I'm sure. Maybe the builder. Or maybe that's where the fusebox and water heater are.

ROTFL!! That must be it. :P

No, I've never heard of craphound. Sometimes people tell me in comments that they are blogging about my hobbit house, but if I Google "hobbit dollhouse" I find mentions by plenty of others, too. It's pretty crazy.

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

ROTFL - Return of the Fellowship Lord? (just kidding :D ) Maybe it WAS Bilbo though - I always thought it was suspicious that he didn't have a wife. Or maybe he had an arranged marriage with one of those nasty cousins. What were they called? And he walled her up.

Still, how cool that you're so famous!

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

PS What's the tiny yellowish room? A bathroom? A cupboard?

[meg-mucklebones.livejournal.com]

How adorable! I had a good chuckle over the Bag End Xmas pics. :) Thanks for sharing!

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

So did I! :D I think they're just amazing!