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galpsi · 08-31-2000, 12:08 PM

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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/wight.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: hobbit hole clearance

Good observation MWC. And while JRRT might have had high-ceilinged rooms in mind, I doubt it. I would expect his Shire to correspond to traditional Anglo-Celtic vernacular architecture. There are some very fine early-modern examples of this at the Welsh Folk-Culture museum near Cardiff. The ceilings were all clastrophobic and the doorways were perilously low for my unremarkable 5'10". But I'd say that your Bree example is the clincher.

</p>Edited by <A HREF=http://www.barrowdowns.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_profile&u=00000201>galpsi</A> at: 8/31/00 2:09:31 pm

08-31-2000, 12:08 PM	#17
galpsi The Unquiet Dead Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 971	<font face="Verdana"><table><TR><TD><FONT SIZE="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">The Unquiet Dead Posts: 0</TD><TD></TD></TR></TABLE> <img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/wight.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: hobbit hole clearance Good observation MWC. And while JRRT might have had high-ceilinged rooms in mind, I doubt it. I would expect his Shire to correspond to traditional Anglo-Celtic vernacular architecture. There are some very fine early-modern examples of this at the Welsh Folk-Culture museum near Cardiff. The ceilings were all clastrophobic and the doorways were perilously low for my unremarkable 5'10". But I'd say that your Bree example is the clincher. </p>Edited by <A HREF=http://www.barrowdowns.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_profile&u=00000201>galpsi</A> at: 8/31/00 2:09:31 pm