Hammer and tongs! ...and nails and glue and paint...

[radagastly]

Our local Renaissance Fair(grounds) have built Bag End (to hobbit scale) for tours, though I've never been through it. I'm the only one of my friends who've ever been interested, and the Mead Stand always awaits. That's the only real thing I know of though.

I'm considering painting the doors like the West-Gate of Moria, though I haven't the skill of Narvi, and not sure what the modern equivalent is for ithildin. Reflective paint perhaps?

In the movie, they used reflective tape, the same stuff they use to put lighting marks on the stage floor in the theatre. It glows in the dark so the actors can find it in the dark, and also reflects like a road-sign. When I was old enough to stay out after dark, my parents made me put it on my bicycle, so its pretty old technology. I'm sure it's not too expensive anymore.